Michael Ryan

Michael Ryan is an American poet and memoirist born in 1946 in St. Louis, Missouri. He earned degrees from the University of Notre Dame, Claremont Graduate School, and the University of Iowa, and has taught creative writing at institutions including UC Irvine, where he directs the MFA program. His notable works include poetry collections that won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award, National Poetry Series, Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, and Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, as well as memoirs like Secret Life, a New York Times Notable Book.