J. Ryan Stradal

J. Ryan Stradal is the author of New York Times bestseller Kitchens of the Great Midwest, which won the 2015 Midwest Booksellers Choice Award for fiction, the 2015 Southern California Booksellers Award for fiction, and the 2015 American Booksellers Association Indie's Choice Award for Adult Debut Book of the Year. His second novel, the national bestseller The Lager Queen of Minnesota, won the 2020 WILLA Literary Award for the year's best novel. His newest novel is the instant national bestseller Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club, which was a finalist for the Heartland Booksellers Award. His shorter writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Granta, The Rumpus, and The Guardian, among other places.