Ryan Wilson

Ryan James Wilson (born December 14, 1982) is a poet, editor, translator, literary critic, and academic from Baltimore, Maryland. He is the C.F.O. and Office Manager of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers, editor of Literary Matters, and an award-winning poet, essayist, and literary translator. His first collection of poetry, The Stranger World, was published in June 2017. In 2019, his monograph, How to Think Like a Poet, was published by Wiseblood Books, and in 2021 his Proteus Bound: Selected Translations, 2008-2020 was published by Franciscan University Press. Ryan Wilson received an Honorable Mention for his poem For a Dog in the Rob Frost Farm Poetry contest in 2015. 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. (English) from the University of Georgia, an M.F.A. (Poetry) from Johns Hopkins University, and an M.F.A. (Poetry) from Boston University in 2008.[1] Currently he teaches at The Catholic University of America, and he serves as the chief financial officer and Office Manager of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers, while also serving as editor-in-chief of Literary Matters, the association's digital literary journal, in which he has published U.S. Poet Laureate, as well as winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grant, the Stegner Fellowship, the Yale Younger Poets Prize, and many more of the nation's top prizes. He lives north of Baltimore with his wife. Publications His works have been published in 32 Poems, Best American Poetry 2018, Birmingham Poetry Review, First Things, Five Points, The Hopkins Review, The New Criterion, The Sewanee Review, The Yale Review, and many other journals, including Poetry Daily and Verse Daily.