ryan rae harbuck
@ryanraeharbuck.bsky.social
WHEN I GROW UP I WANT TO BE A CHAIR memoir & PB (Barefoot Books, Spring '26) | Words in NYT, Huffpost, Newsweek, Insider | All things ♿️ rep | #SCBWI | Boy mom-Reluctant omnivore-Sitter of wheelchairs-Denverite-Underwater meditator
www.ryanraeharbuck.com
www.ryanraeharbuck.com
29 years ago today, my life was changed forever.
29 years ago today, a split-second accident injured my spine.
But today, I celebrate the life I was spared and the immense lesson in it all.
Today, I wouldn't change a thing. ❤️
29 years ago today, a split-second accident injured my spine.
But today, I celebrate the life I was spared and the immense lesson in it all.
Today, I wouldn't change a thing. ❤️
February 1, 2026 at 3:43 PM
29 years ago today, my life was changed forever.
29 years ago today, a split-second accident injured my spine.
But today, I celebrate the life I was spared and the immense lesson in it all.
Today, I wouldn't change a thing. ❤️
29 years ago today, a split-second accident injured my spine.
But today, I celebrate the life I was spared and the immense lesson in it all.
Today, I wouldn't change a thing. ❤️
Took our kids on a surprise birthday overnight in the mountains. Here's how they chose to spend it:
🥰😍🥰😍
🥰😍🥰😍
January 19, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Took our kids on a surprise birthday overnight in the mountains. Here's how they chose to spend it:
🥰😍🥰😍
🥰😍🥰😍
Once upon a time, I wrote my memoir over the span of many years and on accident at first. Self-publishing it quite on purpose, I became swept away by a magical land of picture books and conquered a trad deal based on that book that started it all.
Coming this spring. 🥰🙏
Coming this spring. 🥰🙏
January 9, 2026 at 10:25 PM
Once upon a time, I wrote my memoir over the span of many years and on accident at first. Self-publishing it quite on purpose, I became swept away by a magical land of picture books and conquered a trad deal based on that book that started it all.
Coming this spring. 🥰🙏
Coming this spring. 🥰🙏
New year. Now readers. 🙏👇
January 5, 2026 at 10:58 PM
New year. Now readers. 🙏👇
To a writer, this might just be the next best thing to a Christmas miracle...
December 16, 2025 at 5:09 AM
To a writer, this might just be the next best thing to a Christmas miracle...
I'm a glamorous multi award-winning author...
I drive an 18yo Subaru. I have to fill out a time card for work. I finish my kids plates instead of having my own. I look for coupon codes for everything. I haven't cut my hair in 10mos. I get nervous just talking about my writing.
I drive an 18yo Subaru. I have to fill out a time card for work. I finish my kids plates instead of having my own. I look for coupon codes for everything. I haven't cut my hair in 10mos. I get nervous just talking about my writing.
December 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I'm a glamorous multi award-winning author...
I drive an 18yo Subaru. I have to fill out a time card for work. I finish my kids plates instead of having my own. I look for coupon codes for everything. I haven't cut my hair in 10mos. I get nervous just talking about my writing.
I drive an 18yo Subaru. I have to fill out a time card for work. I finish my kids plates instead of having my own. I look for coupon codes for everything. I haven't cut my hair in 10mos. I get nervous just talking about my writing.
We could all learn a thing or two from kids:
Yesterday, I coaxed a kindergartner in the lunch room to eat his PB&J, and then I'd let him lock my wheelchair brakes.
Today, he brought me this because this is how you make friends.
Yesterday, I coaxed a kindergartner in the lunch room to eat his PB&J, and then I'd let him lock my wheelchair brakes.
Today, he brought me this because this is how you make friends.
December 4, 2025 at 11:36 PM
We could all learn a thing or two from kids:
Yesterday, I coaxed a kindergartner in the lunch room to eat his PB&J, and then I'd let him lock my wheelchair brakes.
Today, he brought me this because this is how you make friends.
Yesterday, I coaxed a kindergartner in the lunch room to eat his PB&J, and then I'd let him lock my wheelchair brakes.
Today, he brought me this because this is how you make friends.
You just can’t beat the feeling of getting a text from one of your friends who finds your book out in the wild (and face-out no less!!)
November 11, 2025 at 9:01 PM
You just can’t beat the feeling of getting a text from one of your friends who finds your book out in the wild (and face-out no less!!)
My kiddo picked out the coolest pumpkin in all of the land.
October 24, 2025 at 8:29 PM
My kiddo picked out the coolest pumpkin in all of the land.
It's clearly Halloween time at my writer's desk...😱🎃
October 22, 2025 at 7:12 PM
It's clearly Halloween time at my writer's desk...😱🎃
What if there were toys made for everyone, no matter how different we are or what we can’t do?
Mavis is on a quest to be the best toy un-maker she can be, but just as long as those whispering onlookers don’t get in the way first.
STRICTLY NO ELEPHANTS x THE INVISIBLE BOY
#DVPit #PB #DIS
Mavis is on a quest to be the best toy un-maker she can be, but just as long as those whispering onlookers don’t get in the way first.
STRICTLY NO ELEPHANTS x THE INVISIBLE BOY
#DVPit #PB #DIS
October 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
MAVIS THE UN-MAKER takes apart toys. She cuts them and hammers them, she glues them and sews them just for her friends. But when others gasp at her dismantled creations, will they keep her from showing the world that not everyone is made like a brand-new toy?
#DVPit #PB #DIS
#DVPit #PB #DIS
October 8, 2025 at 1:02 PM
E OLIPHANT x WHAT ALICE FORGOT
She cannot forget what she can't remember.
When a paralyzing accident takes her mobility & her mom, Jolie must be brave enough to confront her past & see herself for the first time again or risk losing her future entirely.
It's the THINGS WE CAN(NOT)
#DVPit #A #DIS
She cannot forget what she can't remember.
When a paralyzing accident takes her mobility & her mom, Jolie must be brave enough to confront her past & see herself for the first time again or risk losing her future entirely.
It's the THINGS WE CAN(NOT)
#DVPit #A #DIS
October 8, 2025 at 12:01 PM
I made a thing.
Layered with an able-bodied woman and wheelchair user. Layers of the Venus de Samothrace and a lioness gaze. Layers of a highway road.
This is THINGS WE CAN(NOT)✨
Layered with an able-bodied woman and wheelchair user. Layers of the Venus de Samothrace and a lioness gaze. Layers of a highway road.
This is THINGS WE CAN(NOT)✨
October 2, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I made a thing.
Layered with an able-bodied woman and wheelchair user. Layers of the Venus de Samothrace and a lioness gaze. Layers of a highway road.
This is THINGS WE CAN(NOT)✨
Layered with an able-bodied woman and wheelchair user. Layers of the Venus de Samothrace and a lioness gaze. Layers of a highway road.
This is THINGS WE CAN(NOT)✨
Iwokeupthismorning
|somethingiswrong|
Mymindisa t h i e f
ButIcan't forget
whatIcannot remember
#UnhingedPit #A #Q #DIS
|somethingiswrong|
Mymindisa t h i e f
ButIcan't forget
whatIcannot remember
#UnhingedPit #A #Q #DIS
September 23, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Iwokeupthismorning
|somethingiswrong|
Mymindisa t h i e f
ButIcan't forget
whatIcannot remember
#UnhingedPit #A #Q #DIS
|somethingiswrong|
Mymindisa t h i e f
ButIcan't forget
whatIcannot remember
#UnhingedPit #A #Q #DIS
September 23, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Starting the morning off right!🌞
I pitched my adult upmarket fiction novel, THINGS WE CAN(NOT), full of disability rep and truly the story of my very soul.
I pitched my adult upmarket fiction novel, THINGS WE CAN(NOT), full of disability rep and truly the story of my very soul.
September 9, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Starting the morning off right!🌞
I pitched my adult upmarket fiction novel, THINGS WE CAN(NOT), full of disability rep and truly the story of my very soul.
I pitched my adult upmarket fiction novel, THINGS WE CAN(NOT), full of disability rep and truly the story of my very soul.