Ryan Nowlin graduated from Temple's Creative Writing program in 2004. His poetry manuscript was entitled In Ten Cities, a 10x10 grid of materials and a was constructed as viable apparatus. Recently he had two poems pusblished by Oyez Review 07. Other publications include The Asheville Review 1995. He has worked as an English adjunct at various colleges in New Jersey, where he currently resides. Also, he has been active at the St. Marks Poetry Project in New York and recently completed a course there in the fall. In spring '08 he plans to take a workshop moderated by Lisa Jarnot.