Ryan Walsh's collection, The Sinks, won the 2010 Mississippi Valley Poetry Chapbook Contest, and his poems have appeared in Ecotone, FIELD, Narrative, and elsewhere. He received a B.A. from Warren Wilson College and an M.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has taught at Albion College and the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. A finalist for a 2011 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship, he currently works at the Vermont Studio Center in northern VT.