Ryan Vine is the author of The Cave (Texas Review Press, September 2025) and To Keep Him Hidden (Salmon, 2018; 2nd ed. 2019), winner of the Northeastern Minnesota Book Award; and the chapbooks WARD (Texas Review Press, 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, the Southern Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and on National Public Radio’s The Writer’s Almanac.