J. Ryan Stradal is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel Kitchens of the Great Midwest. Born and raised in Minnesota, he currently lives in Los Angeles, where he is an Editor-at-Large at Unnamed Press and Fiction Editor at TASTE Magazine. He is at work on another novel set in his home state.
When people ask me what Denis was like, I always think about how he listened far more intently than just about any writer I’d ever met.
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