Ryan Bloom is an English lecturer at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He has written for The New Yorker, Salon, Black Clock, The Arabesques Review, The Baltimore Sun, Horizon Magazine, and other publications. His translation of Albert Camus' Notebooks 1951-1959 (Rowman and Littlefield) was nominated for the 2009 French-American Foundation and Florence Gould Foundation's Translation Prize for superior English prose. In 2014 he was awarded the Eli Cantor Fellowship by The Corporation of Yaddo, an artist’s colony in Saratoga Springs, NY.