Ryan Sloan is on the faculty in U.C. Berkeley's College Writing Programs and the Haas School of Business. In addition, Ryan's interest in faculty and peer development has led to roles as co-facilitator for the Center for Teaching & Learning’s Lecturer Teaching Fellows Program(link is external); coordinator for the U.C. Berkeley Summer Creative Writing Program; co-founder of the College Writing Research Festival and the Haas Summer PreCore Program(link is external); and a developer of new courses for the Koshland Fellows Summer Institute(link is external) and the Berkeley Changemaker® series.
Ryan is one of the co-hosts of the long-running Babylon Salon quarterly reading series(link is external) in San Francisco. Nominated for the Pushcart Prize, his work has appeared in LA Weekly, Joyland Magazine, Opium Magazine, The Modern Spectator and Painted Bride Quarterly, among other publications. Residencies include the 2019 Lit Camp Writers’ Conference(link is external), the 2019 Arctic Circle Residency on the Summer Solstice Expedition(link is external) and the 2021 Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference(link is external).