Sara Ryan
Official website of Sara Ryan, published poet and PhD candidate at Texas Tech University.
Poet. Student. Editor. Educator.
PUBLICATIONS
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I Thought There Would Be More Wolves
University of Alaska Press
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Chapbooks
Excellent Evidence of Human Activity
Never Leave the Foot of an Animal Unskinned
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Contests
Winner - Permafrost Poetry Book Prize 2020
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Winner - Cutbank Big Sky, Small Prose Contest 2018
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Winner - Grist Journal Pro Forma Contest 2018
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2022
Pothos (forthcoming) Barren Magazine
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Ill Wind (forthcoming) The Lumiere Review
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2021
Illuminance Atlanta Review
We Know These Facts to Be True The West Review
Deadening, Microfilm Diode
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2020
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Nesting Material Poetry Northwest
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Suspicious Pool Ladder Incident, motherlode, Transparency the winnow magazine (The Sims Pop-up Issue)
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Shadows, Deciduous, Frission, Inspection, Shadow Song, Reflection Response: a journal for new work
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Circumstances of Disappearance, A Coyote Runs Down Michigan Avenue New Ohio Review
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Every Man on Tinder Has a Gun Cincinnati Review
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Body Puzzle Brevity
Origin of the Mapping System, I Have Masturbated Three Days in a Row And Can't Stop Crying Kenyon Review
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2019
Violet-Bloom Redivider
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From the Window, She Has a Pair of Simple Eyes Rewilding: Poems for the Environment
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Talk to Eliza Cherry Tree
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Self-Portrait as Mammal Split Rock Review
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The Lizard that Lived Forever Cutbank
Grasp Thrush Poetry Journal
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Growing Bone Glass: A Journal of Poetry
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A Staked Plain museum of americana
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I Have Found the Golden Whales American Literary Review
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Look What I Have Done Anomaly
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Call Me A Courage DIALOGIST
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Remnant Pidgeonholes
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2018
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Heavy Furniture, Girls I Am Mistaken For South Dakota Review
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A Week After Anthony Bourdain's Death Barrelhouse
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My Father Asks if I Was Raised by a Jackal Sweet
Search for Grist Journal
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Maybe We Will Lie About This Diagram
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In Praise of the Exoskeleton Booth
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Rifle Season, It's Been Four Years, A Man in a Bar Takes a Picture of Me The Rumpus
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This is The Realm of Last Chances Hot Metal Bridge
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Graft, Raw Honey Timber
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Beast Fables Gulf Stream Literary Magazine
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13 Horses in Michigan Midwestern Gothic
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Love Poem in Which I Am in Love with No One, The Volume of a Human Heart Bluestem
Prehistory Gordon Square Review
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This Was Never About Pain Pleiades
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Loving With Scissors, Portrait As/With Sister Wildness
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Bramble and Knife Sonora Review
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Sonnet for Black Parades Barrelhouse Blog
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2017
I Thought There Would Be More Wolves Hunger Mountain
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Your Daughter is a Liar Prairie Schooner
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A Man Tells Me How Difficult My Body Is Tinderbox - Contest Issue
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A Girl Sings into a Well, Sending a Book to a Boy, For a Moment Sequestrum
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Renovation, Tasmanian Tiger Third Point Press
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Ode to Mammuthus Primigenius Flock
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A Bestiary of Names: a Review of ANIMALS STRIKE CURIOUS POSES by Elena Passarello Barrelhouse
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A Compulsion of Letters Yemassee
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Imprint, Fieldborn Sugared Water
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Of Men & Birds The Blueshift Journal
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The Second Death Alyss
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Bad Hunter, I Will Have Forgotten You By Sunday Fairy Tale Review
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Blud Ornge Slice Magazine
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Knives Before Forks New South
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Stopping Time Third Coast Magazine
Wolfish Red Paint Hill
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2016
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The Farm Moonsick Magazine
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Gifts From Birds Rust & Moth
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Pantoum for Dark Lands Tinderbox Poetry Journal
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Mud Ceremony Molotov Cocktail Shadow Award Issue
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.