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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 (121 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 Academic. 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, 240 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, Ponder Review, Across the Margin, Villain Era, Cursed Morsels, Osmosis Press, The Word’s Faire, PERCH, Epistemic Lit, SoFloPoJo, In Parentheses, Ink in Thirds, Angry Gable Press, and Headstone Zine. His fiction can be found in Brilliant Flash Fiction, Paragraph Planet, and Roi Fainéant Press, 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.

Next Project
Book Title: History’s Biggest Frauds
Genre: Narrative Nonfiction
Status: Represented manuscript
One-sentence description:
A sharp, narrative-driven exploration of the celebrated figures and cultural heroes who built their reputations on lies, theft, and the erasure of others.

Topics Ryan Can Speak On

• How creative resilience endures rejection, erasure, and myth

• The hidden histories beneath our most celebrated reputations

• The stories powerful people use to shape legacy and memory

• Why failure is more honest and more revealing than success

• The myths we want to believe and the truths we try to forget

• What it means to stage a comeback in life, art, and history

• How reputation is built, broken, and sometimes reborn

• The emotional and cultural costs of who is remembered and who is forgotten

• Why places matter in the stories we tell about ourselves and our communities

• Rethinking authenticity, legacy, and survival in a culture that loves to rewrite its own history

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