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Short Bio (85 words):
Ryan T. Pozzi is a writer and essayist whose work interrogates legacy, myth, and reputation, with particular attention to who shapes our understanding of history. His debut, The Mess That Made Them, will be released by Bloomsbury on September 3, 2026 and is currently available for preorder. His work has been accepted by Rattle, Fjords Review, Broad River Review, and Northern New England Review, among others, and he was a 2025 Best of the Net nominee. Find him at ryantpozzi.com or on social media @ryantpozzi.

Medium Bio (121 words):
Ryan T. Pozzi is a writer and essayist whose work interrogates legacy, myth, and reputation, with particular attention to who shapes our understanding of history. His debut, The Mess That Made Them, will be released by Bloomsbury on September 3, 2026 and is currently available for preorder. His work has been accepted by Rattle, Fjords Review, Broad River Review, and Northern New England Review, among others, and he was a 2025 Best of the Net nominee. Pozzi is represented by Giles Anderson of The Anderson Literary Agency and is at work on several nonfiction projects that bridge personal narrative with cultural criticism, examining how art and history continue to shape our present. Find him at ryantpozzi.com or on social media @ryantpozzi.

Full Bio (for panels, conferences, or event sites, 249 words):
Ryan T. Pozzi is a writer and essayist whose work interrogates legacy, myth, and reputation, with particular attention to who shapes our understanding of history. His debut, The Mess That Made Them, will be released by Bloomsbury on September 3, 2026 and is currently available for preorder. Pozzi is represented by Giles Anderson of The Anderson Literary Agency and is at work on several nonfiction projects that explore invented legacies, cultural frauds, and reputational comebacks, each investigating the uneasy space between myth and lived experience. Before dedicating himself fully to writing, he spent more than a decade directing collaborative performance projects that merged art forms into immersive experiences. His work now bridges personal narrative with cultural criticism, interrogating how art and history continue to shape our present.

His essays and creative nonfiction appear in Fjords Review, Broad River Review, Northern New England Review, Ponder Review, PERCH, Across the Margin, SoFloPoJo, Villain Era, In Parentheses, The Word’s Faire, Ink in Thirds, Osmosis Press, talking about strawberries all of the time, Epistemic Lit, Headstone Zine, and Angry Gable Press. His fiction can be found in Roi Fainéant Press, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Cursed Morsels, and Paragraph Planet, and his poetry in Rattle, The Fib Review, and Wingless Dreamer. He was a 2025 Best of the Net nominee.

He is a member of Authors Against Book Bans, the Authors Guild, and the Nebraska Writers Guild. He lives in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and shares his work at ryantpozzi.com and on social media at @ryantpozzi.

Topics Ryan Can Speak On

• Creative endurance under pressure and what it really costs

• Inside art heists: theft, provenance, and the afterlives of stolen art

• How disappearance creates myth and moves markets

• Fraud as cultural architecture and how reputations are built on lies

• Credit, authorship, and the politics of who is remembered

• Why some ideas age badly and what hindsight reveals

• Social media, spectacle, and the manufacture of legend

• The comeback economy: earned redemption versus engineered return

• Writing narrative history with archival rigor and moral clarity

• Ethical storytelling about flawed figures and contested legacies

• Building a sustainable creative life without burnout

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