Ryan Wilson (poet)


Ryan Wilson is a poet, editor, translator, literary critic, and academic from Baltimore, Maryland. He is the C.F.O. and Office Manager of the , editor of ', and an award-winning poet and essayist. His first collection of poetry, ', was published in June 2017.

Personal life

In December 1982, Wilson was born in Griffin, Georgia. He grew up in Macon, Georgia, and graduated from Tattnall Square Academy in 2000.
He earned a B.A. from the University of Georgia, an M.F.A. from The Johns Hopkins University, and an M.F.A. from Boston University in 2008. Currently he teaches at The Catholic University of America, and he serves as the chief financial officer and Office Manager of the , while also serving as editor-in-chief of , the association's digital literary journal, in which he has published U.S. Poet Laureate, as well as winners of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grant, the Stegner Fellowship, and many more of the nation's top prizes.. He lives north of Baltimore with his wife.

Publications

His works have been published in ', ', ', , , ', ', ', ', and many other journals, including ' and '.
His first collection of poetry, ', won the Donald Justice Poetry Prize and was published by in June 2017. Mark Jarman said, "The Stranger World includes heartbreaking lyrics, haunting narratives, inspired translations, and finely honed satires. It is not simply consummate skill that is everywhere present in these well-wrought poems but, to echo the title of one of the best of them, authority. They are written with the authority of mastery." Robert Pinsky wrote, "Ryan Wilson’s mastery of traditional forms serves a fresh, distinctive poetry of candor and meditation: soulful rather than brittle, more observant than performative. The idiomatic, American blank verse of Wilson’s 'Authority' and L’Estraneo is as fluent as that of Robert Frost, but with an oblique tenderness that reminds me of Frost’s friend Edward Thomas."

Awards