Ron Tanner (born December 5, 1953, San Diego, California) is writer of fiction and nonfiction and Professor Emeritus of Writing at Loyola University Maryland.
He earned a Master of Fine Arts from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 1986, where he was recruited to participate in the influential “20 Under 30” anthology, which included Ann Patchett, Lorrie Moore, and David Leavitt.
A starred Kirkus review stated,"The themes here are major—global warming, imperialism, America’s role in the world (the story is set soon after the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal).
"[12] In 2020, Tanner won the Elixir Press book competition for an unpublished manuscript of fiction, Far West, which was published in 2022.
[23] In 2008, Tanner was awarded a grant by the National Park Service to collect, translate, and preserve the oral stories of Marshallese elders in the Republic of the Marshall Islands.