Educator • Poet • Innovator

Ryan’s manuscript Epilogue to Paradise was a Letras Latinas-ILS/ND- Andres Montoya Poetry Prize Finalist, 2024 Akron Poetry Prize finalist, C&R Press 2022 Poetry Award Longlist, Codhill Press Series Finalist, and an honorable mention in the Southern Collective Latin American Chapbook Competition. A MVICW Poet & Author Fellow, and the winner of the Shandy Hill Essay Contest. Ryan holds an Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, an M.F.A. in poetry from Hunter College, and a B.F.A. in Poetry and Literature from Emerson College. Ryan’s poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Stone Poetry Quarterly, the Penn Journal of Arts and Sciences, Ibbetson Street Press, Heavy Feather Review, and elsewhere.

Ryan’s various publication credits related to innovation in K-12 education and health through the arts include HundrED’s “The Messy Middle: Implementing Education Solutions at Scale” and “ARTS ON PRESCRIPTION: A FIELD GUIDE FOR US COMMUNITIES”. He is also the founder of the Global Poetry Consortium, Global Poetry Festival, an educational video game company, and workforce development partnership. His workshop “Poetry Games” has been featured at the Mass Poetry Festival and the Independent School Association of the Southwest’s Art Festival.

Ryan has been the editor of various publications, including the Poetry Barn’s Poetry Distillery, the Global Poetry Consortium’s Apprentice and Mentor Journals, and the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s student run publication the Appian Way.

As a school leader, Ryan has been a kindergarten teacher, a middle school literacy teacher, a high school english teacher, a physical education director, after school director, assistant head of school, poet and writer in residence, and is currently the project manager at the Tang Institute at Phillips Academy Andover where he works to advance innovations in teaching and learning.