Host and Organizer

Ryan D. Matthews

Ryan D. Matthews is a writer from rural Washington State who earned an MFA from the New School. A de Groot Foundation Courage to Write Award winner, he has been recognized with fellowships from Hawthornden Castle, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Lighthouse Works, Millay Colony, Ucross Foundation, Willapa Bay AiR, and others. He was recently nominated for the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize and was a semifinalist for the George Bennett Fellowship from Phillips Exeter Academy. He is the curator and host of The Rally—a political reading series in Brooklyn—and his work has appeared most recently in Lit Hub, Litro, Joyland, and the Michigan Quarterly Review.