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Short Bio (72 words):
Ryan T. Pozzi is a writer and cultural critic who explores legacy, myth, and reputation, with particular attention to who shapes our understanding of history. His debut, The Mess That Made Them, is forthcoming from Bloomsbury. His writing has been accepted by Rattle, Fjords Review, Northern New England Review, and Ponder Review, among others. He is a 2025 Best of the Net nominee. Find him at ryantpozzi.com or on social media @ryantpozzi.

Medium Bio (120 words):
Ryan T. Pozzi is a writer and cultural critic who explores legacy, myth, and reputation, with particular attention to who shapes our understanding of history. His debut, The Mess That Made Them, is forthcoming from Bloomsbury. His writing has been accepted by Rattle, Fjords Review, Northern New England Review, and Ponder Review, among others. He is 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, including The Mess That Made Them, under contract with Bloomsbury. His work often bridges 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, 286 words):
Ryan T. Pozzi is a writer and cultural critic whose work examines legacy, myth, and reputation, with particular attention to how stories are shaped and who benefits from them. Pozzi is represented by Giles Anderson of The Anderson Literary Agency and is at work on several nonfiction projects, including The Mess That Made Them, forthcoming from Bloomsbury. His broader series of projects includes books on 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, Northern New England Review, PERCH, Across the Margin, Ponder Review, SoFloPoJo, talking about strawberries all of the time, Ink in Thirds, In Parentheses, The Word’s Faire, Osmosis Press, Epistemic Lit, Headstone Zine, Villain Era, and Angry Gable Press. His fiction can be found in Brilliant Flash Fiction, Cursed Morsels, Roi Fainéant Press, and Paragraph Planet, and his poetry in Rattle, The Fib Review, and Wingless Dreamer. He is also a 2025 Best of the Net nominee.

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

Next Project
Book Title: The Empty Frame: Inside the Art World’s Most Audacious Heists
Genre: Narrative Nonfiction
Status: Represented manuscript
One-sentence description:
A narrative history of art heists that follows how the thefts were pulled off, why the works were targeted, what happened in the missing years, and how their returns reshaped value and myth.

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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