Ryan D. Matthews is a writer and editor from rural Washington State who earned an MFA from the New School. With more than twelve years of experience in digital marketing and publishing; demonstrated expertise launching new products, growing audiences, and increasing traffic; he brings a sharp eye and an array of creative skills and strategies to any project or organization.

Ryan D. Matthews is a writer from rural Washington State who earned an MFA from the New School. A Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Fellow, his work has also been recognized with fellowships from the Millay Colony, Hawthornden Castle, Ucross Foundation, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Ragdale Foundation, the Jentel Foundation, and others.

He was recently nominated for the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, was a finalist for the 2019 Emerging Artists Program from the Jerome Foundation, and a semi-finalist for the 2021 George Bennett Fellowship from Phillips Exeter Academy. He is the curator and host of The Rally—a political reading series—and his work has appeared most recently in Joyland, Lit Hub, Litro, and the Michigan Quarterly Review. Follow him on Twitter @RyDMatthews.

Ryan has taught creative writing through Duke University’s OLLI Program, Skillshare.com, Education Unlimited, and the Monterey Bay Writers Studio—an organization he co-founded supporting the literary arts in California’s Central Coast through a diverse offering of classes, workshops, and events.