Ryan G. Van Cleave

Ryan G. Van Cleave is a freelance photographer, teacher and poet, originally from Chicago, whose work has appeared in recent issues of Shenandoah, The Christian Science Monitor, Notre Dame Review, Ploughshares, Quarterly West and The Iowa Review. His most recent books are Say Hello (Pecan Grove Press, 2000) and the anthology, American Diaspora: Poetry of Displacement (Univ. of Iowa Press, 2001), which he co-edited with Virgil Suarez. Van Cleave is the Anastasia C. Hoffman Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Institute for Creative Writing.