Michael Ryan (born 1946 in St. Louis) has been teaching creative writing and literature at University of California, Irvine since 1990.
He is also a contributing editor at The Alaska Quarterly Review.
[2] He is currently the director of the MFA program at the University of California, Irvine.
He has written four books of poems, an autobiography, a memoir, and a collection of essays about poetry and writing.
[4] He currently lives in California with his wife, Doreen Gildroy, and their daughter, Emily.