Ryan Vine is the author of WARD, forthcoming from Texas Review Press, To Keep Him Hidden (Salmon Poetry, 2018), winner of the Northeastern Minnesota Book Award, and Distant Engines (Backwaters Press, 2006), which received a Weldon Kees Award. His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Daily, The Rumpus, Verse Daily, and on National Public Radio. His honors include the Greensboro Review’s Robert Watson Poetry Prize, three McKnight/ARAC Career Development Grants, an Artist Initiative Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship in poetry from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and he has been a finalist or nominee for numerous others, including—selected by Robert
Pinsky—the Dorset Prize.  

Photo by Shawna Vine