Lance Ringel

Lance Ringel’s debut novel Flower of Iowa, an epic romance between two soldiers in the First World War, won the Gold Foreword Indies Book of the Year Award (War & Military Fiction); two Benjamin Franklin Awards from the Independent Book Publishers Association (Gold for Fiction: Romance and Silver for LGBTQ); and a Bronze Medal from the Independent Book Awards, or IPPYs (Military/Wartime Fiction). It was also a Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award (Gay Romance).

His second novel, Floridian Nights, about a young gay widower still paralyzed by grief who tries to navigate a generation-gap romance against the backdrop of NYC and Florida in the late 1980s, also has been named a Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award (Gay Romance), as well as a Finalist for the Foreword Indies Book of the Year Award (Romance).

A playwright as well as a novelist, Ringel has written works for the stage that have been performed to acclaim in New York City. In Love with the Arrow Collar Man, based on the true story of illustrator J.C. Leyendecker and his muse and lover Charles Beach, premiered at Theatre 80 St. Marks, while Flash/Frozen, focusing on two young men whose fates were intertwined by the tragic plane crash that killed the entire US Figure Skating Team in 1961, premiered at Theatre Row.

Ringel was principal writer for Vassar Voices, a staged reading that premiered at Lincoln Center with Meryl Streep and Lisa Kudrow. He also wrote the narrative for At Home in the World, which played in Japan, the U.S. and Uganda under the direction of John Caird.

He resides in both Poughkeepsie, New York, and New York City, with his spouse of 45 years, actor-composer-director Chuck Muckle. www.lanceringel.com