Hugh Ryan is a writer and curator, whose LGBTQ history of Brooklyn, When Brooklyn Was Queer, will be published in March 2019 by St. Martin’s Press. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Tin House, Buzzfeed, the LA Review of Books, Out, and many other venues. He has an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars, and is the recipient of the 2016–2017 Martin Duberman Fellowship at the New York Public Library, a 2017 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Nonfiction Literature, and a 2018 residency at The Watermill Center.