Ryan Collins is the author of four chapbooks, most recently Remote Viewing (DUSIE/Rock Town Press, 2014) and Dear Twin Falls (H_NGM_N, 2013). Recent poems have appeared, or will appear, in Another Chicago Magazine; Asymptote; Cant; Forklift, Ohio; Handsome; PEN Poetry Series; Spork; Transom; and other places. He is an English Instructor at St. Ambrose University and the Executive Director of the Midwest Writing Center, both in Davenport, IA. He also curates the SPECTRA Poetry Reading Series in Rock Island, IL, where he lives.