Ryan Tracy is a writer, artist, performer, and scholar. He teaches literature at Marist University and has held teaching posts at numerous colleges, including a three-year visiting professorship at Knox College in Galesburg, IL. Ryan’s critical writings on literature, art, and performance have appeared in PMLA (forthcoming), Feminist Modernist Studies, Derrida Today, Arizona Quarterly, The D. H. Lawrence Review, The New York Press, The Brooklyn Rail, Mouvement (France), and Performa Magazine. Ryan’s fiction and poetry have appeared in Dazed Santa, boundby, Sugar House Review, Twin Bird Review, Feral, The Hyacinth Review, Chronogram, PANK (nomination for 2019 Pushcart Prize for fiction), and The Gay and Lesbian Review. Ryan Tracy is the author of three books of poetry—Provincetown Purples (2026), Lines in the Shed (2025) and Tender Bottoms (2023)—all published under the aegis of his own imprint, Auntie Press.
Ryan holds a PhD in English Literature from The CUNY Graduate Center and advanced degrees in Gender Studies (Central European University) and Mannes College of Music (Composition). His scholarly work has been presented at the University of Paris, Sorbonne, Concordia University, Goldsmiths, University College London, Oxford University, Pratt Institute, and the CUNY Graduate Center, among others.
Fellowships include Yaddo, The Edward Albee Foundation, The New Museum Seminar, and Performa 09 Writing Live.
