Ryan Petty

Ryan lives in the USA... in a ferryboat town near Seattle with his wife Melissa and the ghost of their Alaskan Malamute dog—Kodiak.

He writes novels in verse; historical fiction; books for children; memoirs; and the occasional odd book that defies explanation.

Though Ryan writes to a professional standard, he thinks of himself as a delighted amateur. He studied creative writing at Princeton under Jerzy Kosinski and Anthony Burgess and was, for a decade thereafter, the proprietor of Austin, Texas-based Cold Mountain Press, a do-it-yourself publisher of signed, limited editions in poetry and fiction.*

Ryan and illustrator Vera Kulikov are currently at work on a picturebook, which isn’t about Elves.... Watch for it to be published in the spring of 2022.

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For more information visit:

www.RyanPettyAuthor.com; or

on Twitter, @RyanPetty77; or

email RyanPettywrites [at] gmail.com.

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Among the respected names published by Ryan’s Cold Mountain Press (circa 1972 to 1980) were two future United States Poets Laureates: Donald Hall and Ted Kooser (who went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry). Other notables included Allen Ginsberg, William Stafford, Wendell Berry, Denise Levertov, Robert Bly, Joseph Bruchac, Michael Hogan, Linda Pastan, Gregory Orr, and Newbery Medal winner, Nancy Willard.