About

Elizabeth Ryan's writing has been awarded the Stegner Fellowship at Stanford and received support from PEN America and the Carnegie Fund. Her screenplay RETROFIT was listed on the Tisch Screenplay Bank. As Mary Elizabeth Ryan she has written a number of young adult books including Alias, a finalist for the California Books for Young Readers medal among other awards, and The Trouble with Perfect (Simon & Schuster). She holds the MFA from the University of Washington in Seattle and is a graduate of NYU Tisch and the London Film School.