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Michael Ryan | |
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Born | 1946 (age 78–79) 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 |
Michael Ryan (born 1946 in St. Louis) has been teaching creative writing and literature at University of California, Irvine since 1990. [1]
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 . [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]
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