Michael Ryan (poet)



Michael Ryan (born 1946 is an American poet.

Life
Ryan was born in St. Louis, Missouri.

Ryan has taught 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. He was fired from Princeton University for propositioning and sleeping with multiple students, acts which he later attributed to his sex addiction.

Ryan has been teaching creative writing and literature at University of California, Irvine since 1990. 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 Threepenny Review, The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine.

He currently lives in California with his wife, Doreen Gildroy, and their daughter, Emily.

Awards

 * 2005 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, for New and Selected Poems
 * Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
 * Whiting Writers Award
 * 1981 Guggenheim Fellowship
 * Yale Series of Younger Poets Award
 * 1980 National Poetry Series

Selected publications



 * New And Selected Poems. (Houghton Mifflin, 2004)
 * Baby B [memoir]''. (Graywolf Press, 2004)
 * A Difficult Grace: On Poets, Poetry, and Writing [essays]. (University of Georgia Press, 2000)
 * Secret Life [autobiography]. (Pantheon, 1995; Vintage paperback, 1996)
 * God Hunger [poems]. (Viking Penguin, 1989; paperback, 1990)
 * In Winter [poems]. (Holt, 1981)
 * Threats Instead of Trees [poems]. (Yale University Press, 1974)