Ryan Wilson is the author of The Stranger World, winner of the Donald Justice Poetry Prize, and How to Think Like a Poet, and he is co-editor, along with April Linder, of the forthcoming anthology Contemporary Catholic Poetry. His work appears in periodicals such as Best American Poetry, Five Points, Hopkins Review, New Criterion, Sewanee Review, and Yale Review. Editor-in-chief of Literary Matters (literarymatters.org), he teaches at The Catholic University of America and in the MFA program at the University of St. Thomas-Houston.