Ryan Chapman is a Sri Lankan-American writer originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota, and currently based in Kingston, New York. He is the author of Riots I Have Known, which NPR named "one of the smartest-and best-novels of the year," among other accolades. His criticism and humor pieces have appeared in Bookforum, the New Yorker, the Guardian, McSweeney's, BOMB, the Brooklyn Rail, Frieze, and elsewhere.
