Ryan WalshRyan Walsh was born and raised in West Virginia. He is the author of two chapbooks, Reckoner (2015) and The Sinks (winner of the 2010 Mississippi Valley Poetry Chapbook Contest), and his poems have appeared in many journals, including Blackbird, Ecotne, Field, Forklift, Ohio, Green Mountains Review, and Narrative. He earned an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a BA from Warren Wilson College, and he has received grants and scholarships from the Vermont Arts Council and Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. He has taught creative writing and literature at Albion College, University of Michigan, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and at the Champlain College Young Writers' Conference. After working at Vermont Studio Center for many years, where he directed the writing residencies program, he now lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Read More Read Less