Sara Ryan
Official website of Sara Ryan, published poet and PhD candidate at Texas Tech University.
Poet. Student. Editor. Educator.
PUBLICATIONS
Book
I Thought There Would Be More Wolves
University of Alaska Press
Purchase at Bookshop, Amazon, or from UCP
Chapbooks
Excellent Evidence of Human Activity
Never Leave the Foot of an Animal Unskinned
Contests
Winner - Permafrost Poetry Book Prize 2020
Winner - Cutbank Big Sky, Small Prose Contest 2018
Winner - Grist Journal Pro Forma Contest 2018
2022
Pothos (forthcoming) Barren Magazine
Ill Wind (forthcoming) The Lumiere Review
2021
Illuminance Atlanta Review
We Know These Facts to Be True The West Review
Deadening, Microfilm Diode
2020
Nesting Material Poetry Northwest
Suspicious Pool Ladder Incident, motherlode, Transparency the winnow magazine (The Sims Pop-up Issue)
Shadows, Deciduous, Frission, Inspection, Shadow Song, Reflection Response: a journal for new work
Circumstances of Disappearance, A Coyote Runs Down Michigan Avenue New Ohio Review
Every Man on Tinder Has a Gun Cincinnati Review
Body Puzzle Brevity
Origin of the Mapping System, I Have Masturbated Three Days in a Row And Can't Stop Crying Kenyon Review
2019
Violet-Bloom Redivider
From the Window, She Has a Pair of Simple Eyes Rewilding: Poems for the Environment
Talk to Eliza Cherry Tree
Self-Portrait as Mammal Split Rock Review
The Lizard that Lived Forever Cutbank
Grasp Thrush Poetry Journal
Growing Bone Glass: A Journal of Poetry
A Staked Plain museum of americana
I Have Found the Golden Whales American Literary Review
Look What I Have Done Anomaly
Call Me A Courage DIALOGIST
Remnant Pidgeonholes
2018
Heavy Furniture, Girls I Am Mistaken For South Dakota Review
A Week After Anthony Bourdain's Death Barrelhouse
My Father Asks if I Was Raised by a Jackal Sweet
Search for Grist Journal
Maybe We Will Lie About This Diagram
In Praise of the Exoskeleton Booth
Rifle Season, It's Been Four Years, A Man in a Bar Takes a Picture of Me The Rumpus
This is The Realm of Last Chances Hot Metal Bridge
Graft, Raw Honey Timber
Beast Fables Gulf Stream Literary Magazine
13 Horses in Michigan Midwestern Gothic
Love Poem in Which I Am in Love with No One, The Volume of a Human Heart Bluestem
Prehistory Gordon Square Review
This Was Never About Pain Pleiades
Loving With Scissors, Portrait As/With Sister Wildness
Bramble and Knife Sonora Review
Sonnet for Black Parades Barrelhouse Blog
2017
I Thought There Would Be More Wolves Hunger Mountain
Your Daughter is a Liar Prairie Schooner
A Man Tells Me How Difficult My Body Is Tinderbox - Contest Issue
A Girl Sings into a Well, Sending a Book to a Boy, For a Moment Sequestrum
Renovation, Tasmanian Tiger Third Point Press
Ode to Mammuthus Primigenius Flock
A Bestiary of Names: a Review of ANIMALS STRIKE CURIOUS POSES by Elena Passarello Barrelhouse
A Compulsion of Letters Yemassee
Imprint, Fieldborn Sugared Water
Of Men & Birds The Blueshift Journal
The Second Death Alyss
Bad Hunter, I Will Have Forgotten You By Sunday Fairy Tale Review
Blud Ornge Slice Magazine
Knives Before Forks New South
Stopping Time Third Coast Magazine
Wolfish Red Paint Hill
2016
The Farm Moonsick Magazine
Gifts From Birds Rust & Moth
Pantoum for Dark Lands Tinderbox Poetry Journal
Mud Ceremony Molotov Cocktail Shadow Award Issue
With My Lost Saints, I Hope You're Hungry, Isms Dirty Chai Magazine
The Midnight Hour The Grief Diaries
Landlocked Hermeneutic Chaos Journal
Nightmare Girl, Boy Who Thinks The World Is Flat Sweet Tree Review
Woolly Bones Storm Cellar
Phaedras de Blondel, This History of Lungs Crab Fat Magazine
Blossom Rot, Scrape Reservoir Journal
2015
Favor, Making a Meal The Boiler Journal
Frequency Illusion Jai-Alai Magazine
2014
Vessel Bear Review
Love, You Sweet Dream Wingbeats II: Exercises and Practice in Poetry
Ode to Bones Boxcar Poetry Review
2013
Warfare, No One Has Ever Told Me I Look Like My Mother, How My Father Taught Me (To Breathe) Uncommon Core: Contemporary Poems for Learning and Living
BIO
Sara Ryan is a poet and student living in Lubbock, Texas. She is a second year at Texas Tech University, where she is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing. She received her MFA at Northern Michigan University. She received her BA in Creative Writing at University of Miami. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize as well as Best of the Net. She was a Best of the Net finalist in 2016. Her work has been published in or is forthcoming from various nationally recognized publications.
Her first chapbook, Never Leave the Foot of an Animal Unskinned, was published by Porkbelly Press in 2018. Her second chapbook, Excellent Evidence of Human Activity, was published by The Cupboard Pamphlet in 2019. She was the winner of Grist Journal's 2018 Pro Forma Contest and Cutbank's Big Sky, Small Prose Contest. Her academic interests include material culture and criticism, poetic forms, hybrid writing, image/text literature and the lyric essay.
Her first full-length collection, I Thought There Would Be More Wolves, won the 2020 Permafrost Poetry Book Award and was published by University of Alaska Press in 2021.