Ryan Van Winkle 
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Ryan Van Winkle 
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* 08.12.1977, New Haven, 美国
居住于:Edinburgh, Scotland, 英国

Ryan Van Winkle (born 1977, New Haven) is a poet, live artist, podcaster and critic living in Edinburgh. Originally from Connecticut, USA, he first arrived in Scotland for the turn of the millennium, and since then has made it his home. He is indefatigably active in the poetry scene there in various roles: as poet, literary promoter, journalist, and long-term member of the multi-arts collective 'The Forest'. His performance “Red Like Our Room Used to Feel” was celebrated as one of the highlights of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2012. Van Winkle’s texts are the expression of a stark, often uneasy emotional honesty. In one performance project, for example, he gave individual readings to his audience in a space that recreated his own bedroom.

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Van Winkle was the first Reader in Residence of the Scottish Poetry Library and Poet in Residence of the Edinburgh City Libraries. His first poetry collection, “Tomorrow, We’ll Live Here” (Salt) won the 2009 Crashaw Prize for a First Publication. His second full length poetry book "The Good Dark" (Penned in the Margins) came out in 2015.

He has been a contributor to the Prairie Schooner blog and the host and co-producer of the arts podcast The Multi-Coloured Culture Laser and the poetry podcast for the Scottish Poetry Library. His poems have appeared in New Writing Scotland, The Prairie Schooner and The American Poetry Review. As a member of Highlight Arts he has organised festivals and translation workshops in Syria, Pakistan and Iraq. He was awarded a Robert Louis Stevenson fellowship in 2012 and a residency at The Studios of Key West in 2015. Find his website at www.ryanvanwinkle.com