Roy Scranton

Roy Scranton is an American writer of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. His essays, journalism, short fiction, and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Nation, Dissent, LIT, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Boston Review. His first book, Learning to Die in the Anthropocene was published by City Lights. His novel War Porn was released by Soho Press in August 2016. It was called "One of the best and most disturbing war novels in years" by Sam Sacks in the Wall Street Journal. He co-edited Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War. He currently teaches at the University of Notre Dame.

Background
Scranton grew up in Oregon. He dropped out of college and spent several years wandering the American West. He enlisted in the United States Army in 2002, serving fourteen months in Iraq. He was discharged from the Army in 2006. He then earned a Bachelor's and Master's degree at The New School before earning a PhD at Princeton University.

Reception
Author Jeff VanderMeer wrote of Learning to Die in the Anthropocene, "It’s a powerful, useful, and ultimately hopeful book that more than any other I’ve read has the ability to change people’s minds and create change." Commenting on his bluntness, Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow of the Los Angeles Review of Books wrote, "There is something cathartic about his refusal to shy away from the full scope of our predicament."

Works

 * Learning to Die in the Anthropocene. City Lights Publishers. 2016. ISBN 9780872866690
 * War Porn. Soho Press. 2016. ISBN 9781616957155