Nathan Ripley

Journalist Nathan Ruthnum writes literary fiction under the pseudonym Nathan Ripley. Nathan grew up in Kelowna and spent the majority of his twenties in the city of Vancouver, and he made many trips to the Pacific Northwest, where he set his first novel. Nathan would attend many concerts here, and conduct research, eventually.

Interest he had in thriller, horror, and pulp fiction never waned even while he was focused on writing literary fiction and criticism.

His essays and stories have been published in Sight & Sound, The Walrus, and Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. He also published a book of essays called Curry, which he published under Nathan Ruthnum.

He has won a McClelland & Stewart/ Writers’ Trust Journey Prize in the year 2013 for his short story “Cinema Rex”. “Find You in the Dark” was an immediate bestseller and was a finalist for the Best First Novel award from Arthur Ellis.

Ripley always wanted to write crime fiction from very early in his twenties, and genre is his true love. That’s not the only thing he writes however. He likes to write screenplays, as well, something that he had wanted to do since he was fourteen years old.