Sean Rys was born in Santa Barbara, California, in 1986. He studied Literature and Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and later received his MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from the University of Arizona. He is a former editor for Sonora Review and a recipient of the Academy of American Poets Prize for “The Waning Years”. His poems have appeared recently in literary journals such as DIAGRAM, Indiana Review, and Cutbank. With Paul Scott Derrick, he is currently co-editing a book of critical essays on Richard Berengarten’s The Manager. His own work includes a manuscript-in-progress with American poet Chris Nelson and a chapbook titled Parallax. He lives in Tucson, Arizona, where he works as a lecturer with the Writing Program at the University of Arizona.
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