Ryan Vine is the author of To Keep Him Hidden, winner of the Northeastern Minnesota Book Award. He is also the author of two chapbooks: WARD and Distant Engines, winner of a Weldon Kees Award. His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, The Rumpus, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and on National Public Radio’s “The Writer’s Almanac.” His honors include The Greensboro Review’s Robert Watson Poetry Prize, three McKnight/ARAC Career Development Grants, an Artist Initiative Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, and a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship in Poetry from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference.