Ryan S. Mann

Ryan S. Mann writes from the seam between ordinary American life and the other world that keeps interrupting it. A Star Seed and A Witch is the first story — his first memoir, and the first volume of a longer work. The ground under it is Florida: Pahokee, the cane, the lake, the stories that would not stay on the page. The first volume stays with the boy and the land. Later rooms wait.

This house does not publish a personal photograph of the author. The figures you see are the work as it sees him — a boy on a dirt road, a light in a pew, a man on the dike. Likeness is a right. It is not spent here.

Short promotions live on this page. A clip posted elsewhere is not the master. This house is the first home of each variation.

Struggle shapes story. Story shapes everything. All inquiries about the book, the editions, and the rights in the work go through this house. He is the owner of the work. The official address is ryansmann.com.