Erin Kate Ryan's debut novel, QUANTUM GIRL THEORY, published in 2022 by Random House. Her short stories have appeared over the past ten years in print and online journals such as VQR, Conjunctions, The New School, Glimmer Train, Booth, and Copper Nickel. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart award, and she's received grants, fellowships, and scholarships from The Jerome Foundation, the James Jones First Novel Fellowship, the Minnesota State Arts Board, MacDowell, Millay, VCCA, VSC, Bread Loaf, Sewanee, and the MacKnight Foundation. She holds an MFA from Bennington Writing Seminars, where she was an alumni fellow, and a JD from Boston University.
Here is the son of a helium baron. His head is a mylar balloon, lolling above his polo shirt collar. The collar a green piqué. The shirt striped in navy and white. Here is the house that helium built, floating sixty feet up in the sky. A complex system of three thousand ropes tethers it […]