Ryan Alexander MacDonald (born May 25, 1977, in

Kansas City, Missouri Kansas City (abbreviated KC or KCMO) is the largest city in Missouri by population and area. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 508,090 in 2020, making it the 36th most-populous city in the United States. It is the central ...

) is an American writer, sound and visual artist. He won the American Short(er) Fiction Award for his title story in 2012.

Education

MacDonald earned a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute, a Master of Fine Arts degree in Studio Art and a Master of Fine Arts in English from the

University of Massachusetts, Amherst The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst, UMass) is a public research university in Amherst, Massachusetts and the sole public land-grant university in Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Founded in 1863 as an agricultural college, i ...

(where he was a University Fellow).

Career

He is the author of ''The Observable Characteristics of Organisms'' (2014) from Fiction Collective Two. In 2012, he won the American Short(er) Fiction Award for his title story. In 2017 he was nominated for a Bessie Award in Outstanding Composition and Sound Design for Choreographer Vanessa Anspaugh's, The End of Men, Again. He has worked for over fifteen years in collaboration with his wife, Choreographer Aretha Aoki. Aoki and MacDonald's 2020 performance, ''IzumonookunI'', a dance/punk/goth-glam/synthwave show that weaves together the lost history of kabuki and its real and imagined influences and offshoots also features their daughter, Frankie Mayfield Aoki-MacDonald. https://www.straight.com/arts/a-boundary-breaking-japanese-legend-gets-a-modern-punk-makeover-in-izumonookuni

Bibliography

* ''The Observable Characteristics of Organisms''. FC2 2014.

References

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