Ryan Blacketter’s short stories are published or forthcoming in The Antioch Review, Image, Crab Orchard Review, Quick Fiction, Alaska Quarterly Review, Clackamas Literary Review, and Other Voices. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he is a recipient of a Haystack Writing Award and a Tennessee Williams Scholarship. He has received a literary grant from Oregon Regional Arts and a prison teaching grant from Idaho Humanities Council. His novel-in-stories, Horses All Over Hell, was a finalist for the 2006 Bakeless Prize in Fiction and a runner-up for the 2008 Ohio State University Prize in Short Fiction. Ryan has taught creative writing at University of Iowa, Boise State University, Lane Community College, Portland Community College, and University of Oregon. He was a 2009-2010 Writer-in-Residence for Portland's Writers in the Schools Program. He teaches composition and introductory literature at OSU and is finishing his second book, a novel.
Ryan has taught ESL in Greece and Spain, sorted salmon in Alaska canneries, waited tables in Boston, stocked shelves at neighborhood groceries in Brooklyn and San Francisco, taught fiction workshops to prison inmates, picked beets off conveyor belts, and worked many other part-time jobs.
