Ryan Dennis is the author of the novel The Beasts They Turned Away, published by époque press in March 2021. He is a Fulbright alumnus and PhD in creative writing, and has taught writing at the University of Education, Schwäbisch Gmünd, the National University of Ireland, Galway and Maynooth University, where he was the writer-in-residence in 2021-2022. His work has appeared in various literary journals, such as The Cimarron Review, New England Review, Fourth Genre, and The Threepenny Review. Ryan is also a syndicated columnist for agricultural print journals in four countries and two languages.
In addition to exploring the dynamics of rural life in literature, Ryan also seeks to serve those communities more directly. In 2020 he founded The Milk House, an initiative to showcase the work of those writing on rural subjects in order to help them find greater audiences. As part of the writer-in-residency in Maynooth, he created and edited Voices from the Land, a collection of short stories, essays and poems by Irish farmers.
Currently, Ryan is working on a memoir that investigates why family farming has nearly come to an end in the United States.
You can find the official author page of Ryan Dennis here.
You can also email him directly: RyanDennis@themilkhouse.org.
