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Frances Ryan is a British journalist specialising in disability issues. Ryan has a weekly column in The Guardian, and her work has been published in New Statesman and The Independent. In 2018, she was shortlisted by the IPSE for the Freelancer of the Year Awards. In 2019, Ryan was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for her work on cuts to disability benefits. Ryan's first book, Crippled: Austerity and the Demonisation of Disabled People, was published in June 2019 by Verso Books. Ryan draws upon her own experiences as a wheelchair user in her writing.

Early life and career
Ryan was born to working class parents. She grew up in Grantham, Lincolnshire, and attended a grammar school. She holds a PhD in Politics from the University of Nottingham. Towards the end of her PhD, Ryan started writing freelance, before participating in The Guardian 's Positive Action Scheme for disabled aspiring journalists in 2012.