Michael Ryan (born 1946 in
St. Louis) has been teaching creative writing and literature at
University of California, Irvine since 1990.
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''. 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'', ''
Poetry Magazine''.
He currently lives in California with his wife,
Doreen Gildroy, and their daughter, Emily.
Awards
* 1974
Yale Series of Younger Poets Award for ''Threats Instead of Trees''
* 1980
National Poetry Series, ''In Winter''
* 1981
Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...
* 1987
Whiting Award
The Whiting Award is an American award presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and plays. The award is sponsored by the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation
Mrs. (American English) or Mrs (British English; standard E ...
* 1990
Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for ''God Hunger''
* 2005
Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
The Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards are a pair of American prizes based at Claremont Graduate University. They are given to poets for their collections of poetry written in the English language, by a citizen or legal resident alien of the U ...
, for ''New and Selected Poems''
Selected publications
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*''New And Selected Poems''. (
Houghton Mifflin,
2004
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Events January
* January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...
)
*''Baby B''
emoir'. (Graywolf Press, 2004)
*''A Difficult Grace: On Poets, Poetry, and Writing''
ssays (University of Georgia Press,
2000
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)
*''Secret Life''
utobiography (Pantheon, 1995; Vintage paperback,
1996
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)
*''God Hunger''
oems (Viking Penguin,
1989
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; paperback, 1990)
*''In Winter''
oems (Holt,
1981
Events January
* January 1
** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union.
** Palau becomes a self-governing territory.
* January 10 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensiv ...
)
*''Threats Instead of Trees''
oems (
Yale University Press,
1974
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)
References
External links
"Michael Ryan", ''How a Poem Happens'', February 9, 2009*
Whiting Foundation Profile
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1946 births
Living people
American essayists
American male poets
Princeton University faculty
University of Virginia faculty
University of Iowa faculty
University of California, Irvine faculty
American male essayists