Author: Michael Ryan
Alternate names: Michael K. Ryan
Born: 1946
Bio: Michael Ryan is Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing and Director of the MFA Program in Poetry at the University of California, Irvine.  He previously taught poetry writing at Iowa, Princeton, the University of Virginia, and the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. He has published five books of poems, a collection of essays, an autobiography, a memoir, and a novel.  Five of the books were New York Times Notable Books of the year.  The autobiography was reviewed on the front page of the New York Times Book Review and the memoir was excerpted in The New Yorker.  His poetry has won many awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers Award, the Lenore Marshall Prize, and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.