J. Ryan Stradal

J. Ryan Stradal is the author of New York Times bestseller Kitchens of the Great Midwest and national bestsellers Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club and The Lager Queen of Minnesota. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Granta, The Rumpus, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. His debut, Kitchens of the Great Midwest, won the American Booksellers Association Indie’s Choice Award for Adult Debut Book of the Year. Born and raised in Minnesota, he currently lives in California with his family.