Ryane Nicole (Harris) Granados

Los Angeles native Ryane Harris, a.k.a. Ryane Nicole Nicole Granados, received her Bachelor's in English in 2000 from Loyola Marymount University and holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Antioch University, Los Angeles. At Loyola, Harris was a Nikki Giovanni writing award recipient and the Valedictorian for her graduating class, an experience that later inspired her first book, Tips from an Unlikely Valedictorian (Kendall Hunt 2009). 

Harris (Granados) was hired in spring of 2005 along with three other new full-time English instructors: Joan Ahrens, Lisa Ledri-Aguilar, and Jenny Nolen. With the addition of four new hires, sitting Department Chair, Gary Phillips, increased the size of the English Department to twenty-five full-time faculty members, the largest staffing the English Department has ever enjoyed. The faculty expansion was part of an equalization campaign to address widely divergent state funding for community colleges, for which the Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community College District had been on the forefront.

Harris began teaching in the English Department that fall, not only as a published essayist, fiction writer, playwright, and soon-to-be published textbook author, but with extensive experience as a developmental composition specialist. However, before she completed her tenure track at Grossmont, she accepted a position at another college closer to her Los Angeles roots, after which her writing has continued to be featured in a variety of print and on-line journals and anthologies.

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Periodicals

• "Here Comes The Sun: How The Beatles Helped Me Accept I Couldn’t Breastfeed." Role Reboot 29 July 2014. On-line. 
• "Window Walking." Gravel Magazine November 2014. On-line.
• “What’s In a Name?” Dirty Chai 2 (Winter 2014): p38-41.
• "Pigtails and Pressing Combs." Words, Pauses, Noises (Kingston Creative Writers' Blog) 22 February 2015. On-line. 
• "The Truth Will Set You Free." Mutha Magazine 14 April 2015. On-line.  
• “Sauda.” Specter Magazine 27 June 2015.  On-line. 
• “The Forgotten Breath Of Life, Love And Happiness.” The Good Men Project 22 October 2015. On-line.
• "Rising to the Surface." Words, Pauses, Noises (Kingston Creative Writers' Blog) 15 November 2015.  On-line. 
• “How on Earth Could You Raise a Kid in LA?: Nonfiction by Ryane Nicole Granados.” Blog. Forth Magazine 19 January 2016. On-line.
• "Reconciling The Tug Of War Between Teaching And Writing." Women Who Submit 3 February 2016. On-line. 
• "My Father As a Hologram." The Manifest-Station 29 April 2016. On-line.
• "5 Things My Sons Can Learn From Bree Newsome." Role Reboot 7 July 2015. On-line. 
• “Presidential Playgrounds Politics.” The Good Men Project 4 February 2017. On-line.
• "An Obituary to my Twenties—All for the Love of my Thirties." My Thirty Spot 9 May 2016. On-line. 
• "Playground and Politics." The Nervouse Breakdown 23 January 2017. On-line. 
• "Groomed." Lady/Liberty/Lit 6 October 2017. On-line. 
• "Mindfulness for Busy Moms." L.A. Magazine 1 May 2018. On-line. 
• "A Day In The Life Of A Special Needs Mom’s Brain." Scary Mommy. On-line. 

Plays

• Failure of the 4.0
• It Sucks To Be an Adult 

Anthologies

• "Failure of the 4.0: A Play." in Teen Girls' Comedic Monologues That Are Actually Funny. Ed. Alisha Gaddis. Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, 2015.

• Tips From an Unlikely Valedictorian. Kendall Hunt Publishing, 2009.

• “About Ryane Granados.” The Good Men Project. On-line. goodmenproject.com. Accessed folder 20 November 2018.
• Awards and Accolades 2010-2011. Event program. Fountain Valley, CA: Coastline Community College, 2011.
• Bellas, Georgia. "'Try a Little Tenderness’: An Interview With Ryane Nicole Granados." Atticus Review 28 July 2015. On-line.
• Malloy, Elizabeth Malloy. “Record Number of Faculty Added to Grossmont College Roster." The Daily Transcript (Grossmont College El Cajon, CA) 25 October 2005. Web.

• Nancy Herzfeld Pipkin 2000-2006* (*tenured to ESL 2006-2012)
• Janice Bellinghiere 2000-
• Qais Sako 2001-2018
• Kamala Balasubramanian 2001-
• Ryan Griffith 2001-
• Sydney Brown 2001-
• Ryane Harris 2005-2006
• Joan Ahrens 2005-2018 (Interim Dean, Art, Humanities, Social Sciences 2018-)
• Lisa Ledri-Aguilar 2005-
• Jenny Nolen 2005-
• Micah Jendian 2006-
• Tate Hurvitz 2006-
• Karl J. Sherlock 2006-