Safe is the new novel by UEA alumnus Ryan Gattis and has just been published in the UK by Picador. Ryan was born in Illinois, USA, and raised in Colorado. He gained a BFA in Creative Writing from Chapman University in California in 2001 and graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2002. He published his first novel Roo Kickkick and the Big Bad Blimp in 2004. This was followed by Kung Fu High School in 2005 and two novellas, The Big Drop: Homecoming in 2012 and The Big Drop: Impermanence in 2013. All Involved: A Novel Of The 1992 LA Riots was published in 2015. Ryan was a founding member of the publishing collective Black Hill Press, and taught English & Creative Writing for ten years at Chapman University. He currently lives in Los Angeles
Safe by Ryan Gattis
