Michael Ryan (born 1946 in St. Louis) has been teaching creative writing and literature at University of California, Irvine since 1990.[1]

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Life

He taught previously at the University of Iowa, Princeton University, the University of Virginia, and in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. He is also a contributing editor at The Alaska Quarterly Review.[2] He is currently the director of the MFA program at the University of California, Irvine.

He has written four books of poems, an autobiography, a memoir, and a collection of essays about poetry and writing.

His work has appeared regularly in The American Poetry Review, The Alaska Quarterly Review, The Threepenny Review, The New Yorker,[3] Poetry Magazine.[4]

He currently lives in California with his wife, Doreen Gildroy, and their daughter, Emily.[5]

Awards

• 1974 Yale Series of Younger Poets Award for Threats Instead of Trees
• 1980 National Poetry Series, In Winter
• 1981 Guggenheim Fellowship[6]
• 1987 Whiting Award
• 1990 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for God Hunger
• 2005 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, for New and Selected Poems

Selected publications

• "A Posthumous Poetics". Poetry. September 1973.
• "Insult". The New Yorker. November 5, 2007.
• "Airplane Food". Threepenny Review. Winter 2005.
• New And Selected Poems. (Houghton Mifflin, 2004)
• Baby B [memoir]. (Graywolf Press, 2004)
• A Difficult Grace: On Poets, Poetry, and Writing [essays]. (University of Georgia Press, 2000)
• Secret Life [autobiography]. (Pantheon, 1995; Vintage paperback, 1996)
• God Hunger [poems]. (Viking Penguin, 1989; paperback, 1990)
• In Winter [poems]. (Holt, 1981)
• Threats Instead of Trees [poems]. (Yale University Press, 1974)

References

External links

• "Michael Ryan", How a Poem Happens, February 9, 2009
• Peter Harris (Summer 1991). "Hunger, Hope, and Nurture: Poetry From Michael Ryan, the Chinese Democracy Movement, and Maxine Kumi". Virginia Quarterly Review. Archived from the original on 2008-10-13.
• Whiting Foundation Profile