Ryan Wilson earned a B.A. in English from The University of Georgia in 2004, anM.F.A. in Poetry from The Johns Hopkins University in 2007, and a second Master's degree from Boston University in 2008. Since arriving at The Catholic University of America in 2010, he has published more than one hundred original poems, translations, and critical essays in periodicals such as First Things, Five Points, The Hopkins Review, Image, The New Criterion, The Sewanee Review, and The YaleReview. His work has been recognized with a number of awards and prizes, and his first volume of poems, The Stranger World, which was awarded the Donald Justice Poetry Prize, was published by Measure Press in June of 2017. His monograph, How to Think Like a Poet, was published by Wiseblood Books in 2019, and his book, Proteus Bound: Selected Translations 2008-2020, was published by Franciscan University Press in 2021. His next book of original poems, In Ghostlight, is forthcoming from LSU Press as part of the Southern Messenger Poets Series in Spring 2024.
Wilson serves as the office manager and C.F.O. for the Association of LiteraryScholars, Critics, and Writers, an international non-profit organization that promotes the study of literature in both scholarly and creative environments. He is also the editor of Literary Matters, the online literary journal of the ALSCW: during his tenure as editor the journal has published U.S. Poets Laureate and winners of the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Bollingen Prize, the MacArthur "Genius" Award, and many other premier awards.
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