Frances Ryan

Frances Ryan is a multi-award-winning journalist and author. Named Commentator of the Year broadsheet 2024 by the Society of Editors, Ryan’s work has made the front pages of the New York Times, the Guardian and British Vogue. It has helped change government policy, been discussed in the House of Commons, and featured anywhere from Channel 4 News, to BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour to The World Tonight.

For the last decade, Ryan has been a columnist and reporter at the Guardian. Her debut book, Crippled, (2019, Verso), was shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Award, and made into the short drama Hen Night for the BBC. In 2025, Ryan was named as one of the 25 most influential women defining Britain by British Vogue. The same year, Elle U.K. selected her as one of their 40 women of hope defining the next 40 years of culture. Ryan is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has a PhD in politics from the University of Nottingham.