About

With over fifteen years of experience as a poet, arts administrator, and educator, Ryan is passionate about supporting artists and creative communities. At the Academy of American Poets he secured state, federal, and private funds to award to poets at all stages of their careers. After a Fulbright brought him to Tokyo in 2018, he taught literature and creative writing at Rikkyo University there. His creative work has been translated, anthologized, and published in over sixty literary journals, as well as supported by funds from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs and the US Embassy in Riga. He is currently studying intellectual property at the Chicago-Kent College of Law (a top ten program nationally) to help artists defend their work through copyright and trademark protections.

In the summer of 2018, he served as poet-in-residence for 6-months at thecamp in Aix-en-Provence, France. He developed and built an interactive experience that takes a physical approach to personal data. Using a smart mirror to display one’s “digital reflection,” the project engages with the repercussions of one’s online presence and offers a glimpse at how computers have learned to perceive us. The exhibit toured internationally to the likes of the Tate Modern in London and the Chronus Art Center & Extrart Space in Shanghai.