Michael O’Ryan’s poems appear or are forthcoming in Best New Poets, Cincinnati Review, Greensboro Review, Iowa Review, Missouri Review, Narrative Magazine, Ninth Letter, North American Review, Oxford Poetry, Third Coast, and elsewhere. His work has received support or recognition from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, American Literary Review Award, Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize, Oxford Poetry Prize, Patricia Cleary Miller Award, and Narrative’s Annual Poetry Prize. He has taught creative writing at the University of Michigan, where he earned an MFA from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program, won a Hopwood Award, and received a Zell Fellowship, as well as Interlochen Arts Academy as Visiting Poet in Residence. He serves as an Assistant Editor for Michigan Quarterly Review.
While at MacDowell, O'Ryan continued to work on his debut collection. He will serve as the 2026-27 Olive B. O'Connor Fellow in Poetry at Colgate University.
