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Sara Ryan

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Sara Ryan is a poet and student living in Lubbock, Texas. She is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at Texas Tech University. She received her MFA at Northern Michigan University and her BA in Creative Writing at University of Miami, where she earned Honors for her thesis, Pitch & Milk. She has, in previous years, been nominated for a Pushcart Prize as well as Best of the Net. She was a Best of the Net finalist in 2016.

Her work has been published in or is forthcoming from Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, Hunger Mountain, Yemassee, Sonora Review, Gulf Stream and others.

Her first chapbook, Never Leave the Foot of an Animal Unskinned, was published by Porkbelly Press in 2018. She was the winner of Grist Journal's 2018 Pro Forma Contest. Her acade ...more

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Average rating: 4.58 · 43 ratings · 13 reviews · 3 distinct works

	Excellent Evidence of Human Activity 4.29 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Thought There Would Be More Wolves: Poems (Permafrost Prize Series) 4.64 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2021 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Never Leave the Foot of an Animal Unskinned 4.92 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Sunburn

by Chloe Michelle Howarth

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On the Calculation of Volume I

by Solvej Balle

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they/she/he: ritual to forget your (un)becoming

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Felt lots of feelings reading this. Enjoyed it, was also lowkey devastated by it.
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Some of this worked for me. Some of it felt like poetic experimentation with not much thought about the reader’s experience. Was funny at times, very camp. Not sure how I feel overall.
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Found this hard to get into initially but it picked up about a quarter of the way through. I enjoyed it. I don’t know why but it felt like alternate universe Bob’s Burgers 😆
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