Ryan Flaherty lives and teaches in Western Massachusetts. His poems are forthcoming or have appeared in journals such as The Gettysburg Review, LIT, Gulf Coast, Denver Quarterly, POOL, Pleiades and Crazyhorse.

About Columbia: A Journal:
Poets in this issue: James Henry, Mary Jo Bang, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Quan Barry, Monica Youn, Victoria Chang, Ravi Shankar, Robin Behn, Andrew Schelling, Vera Krons, Dilruba Ahmed, Oni Buchanan, Srikanth Reddy, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Carrie Etter, A.E. Stallings, Ryan Flaherty, Ilya Kaminsky