Tanyo Ravicz grew up in L.A. and graduated from Harvard University. After living on the East Coast and in Europe, he settled for many years in Alaska, a place which continues to inspire his writing.

Over the years Tanyo Ravicz has found work as a wildland firefighter, property manager, cannery hand, laborer, schoolteacher and writer. His essays and stories have appeared in a range of online and print journals.

Rain on the Roof, Wind in the Spruce, his new novel, a high-stakes marriage story set in the Alaska wilderness, is a companion book to his memoir Land of Bear and Eagle: A Home in the Kodiak Wilderness (Hancock House), an Anchorage Daily News top pick for 2023.

His first novel, A Man of His Village, awarded ForeWord Magazine’s Gold Award in Literary Fiction and the Eric Hoffer Prize in General Fiction, was followed by a selection of his published stories, Alaskans. Ravicz, a member of the Palm Springs Writers Guild, is also the author of the short novel Ring of Fire and of the comic epic poem “Hail to the Chief,” a digital single issued by Denali Press.