Ryan BlacketterA graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Ryan Blacketter is the author of the novel Down in the River. He has received a literary grant from Oregon Arts and Culture Council and a prison-teaching grant from the Idaho Humanities Council. He works as amentor for PEN America's prison writing program. A Tennessee Williams Scholar at Sewanee, he has read story manuscripts at Tin House and taught creative writing in Portland high schools through WITS. Read More Read Less