Michael Ryan (born 1946 in St. Louis) has been teaching creative writing and literature at University of California, Irvine since 1990.[1]
Michael Ryan | |
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| Born | 1946 (age 77–78) St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
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| Nationality | American |
| Notable awards | Whiting Award (1987) Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award (2005) |
| Spouse | Doreen Gildroy |
| Children | 1 |
Life
editHe 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
edit- 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
edit- "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
edit- ^ "UCI E&CL Faculty Profile". www.faculty.uci.edu. Archived from the original on 2013-05-18. Retrieved 2018-03-13.
- ^ EMMONS, STEVE (1995-07-18). "A Secret Life : In his new book, poet and professor Michael Ryan leads us down the dark path of his sexaddiction . . . and back". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved 2018-03-13.
- ^ "Search : The New Yorker". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on 2011-06-07. Retrieved 2009-08-08.
- ^ "Michael Ryan". Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation. 2018-03-13. Retrieved 2018-03-13.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ Ryan, Michael (2000-11-16). "Michael Ryan". Michael Ryan. Retrieved 2018-03-13.
- ^ "Michael Ryan - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Archived from the original on 2011-06-04. Retrieved 2009-08-08.
External links
edit- "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