Frances Ryan

Frances Ryan is an award-winning journalist and author. For the past decade, she has been a columnist and reporter for The Guardian. Named Commentator of the Year 2024 by the Society of Editors, Ryan's work has appeared on the front pages of The New York Times, The Guardian, and British Vogue. Her reporting has helped change government policy, been discussed in the House of Commons, and featured across major media outlets including Channel 4 News, BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour, and The World Tonight. ​Her debut book, Crippled (Verso, 2019), was shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Award 2020 and adapted into the BBC short drama Hen Night in 2021. Twice highly commended at the National Press Awards, Ryan was named one of Britain's "30 Exceptional Women Journalists" by Women in Journalism in 2022. That same year, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Ryan lives in Nottingham and holds a PhD in politics from the University of Nottingham.