Ryan Vine is the author of To Keep Him Hidden (Salmon Poetry, 2018), winner of the Northeastern Minnesota Book Award; and the chapbooks WARD (TRP, 2021); and Distant Engines (Backwaters Press, 2006), winner of a Weldon Kees Award. His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, The Rumpus, Blackbird, The Southern Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and on National Public Radio's The Writer's Almanac. He is Professor of English at the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, MN.