Copyright © 2011 by Ryan G. Van Cleave. All rights reserved.

Who wrote the book on writing memoir? The Memoir Doctor, of course.

The Important Stuff

  1. Ryan detests long walks on the beach.
  2. He enjoys napping with a small Shih Tzu dozing in the crook of his arm.
  3. He squeezes toothpaste from the top of the tube. Always.
  4. He can locate Orion’s Belt even with his eyes shut.

The Other Stuff

Ryan G. Van Cleave, Ph.D., lives in Sarasota, FL where he works as an international speaker, a freelance writer, a writing coach, a Liberal Arts department faculty member at The Ringling College of Art + Design, and a digital addiction & recovery consultant. He also serves as Executive Director of C&R Press, a non-profit literary organization.


Ryan has taught creative writing and literature at Clemson University, Eckerd College, and the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay as well as at prisons, community centers, and urban at-risk youth facilities.


His recent awards include a Gold Medal in the Florida Book Awards, a Gold Medal from the Florida Publisher’s Association, and an Individual Artist Fellowship from the state of Florida. He was also the 2007-2008 Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Washington at George Washington University, the Edward H. and Marie C. Kingsbury Fellow at Florida State University, and the Anastasia C. Hoffman Writing Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Institute for Creative Writing.


The Amazon.com best-selling author (or co-author) of twenty books, Ryan's poetry, fiction, and nonfiction has appeared in such venues as The Christian Science Monitor, Clean Eating, Harvard Review, The Missouri Review, National Geographic Adventures, The New York Times Review of Books, Ploughshares, The Progressive, Psychology Today, Scott Stamp Monthly, and Writers' Journal.


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