Ryler Dustin -- poetry

A native of Bellingham, Washington, Ryler Dustin is a winner of the Inprint Paul Verlaine $10,000 Poetry Prize, a 2011 Ruth Lilly Fellowship finalist, and has competed on the final stage of the Individual World Poetry Slam. He holds an MFA from the University of Houston, where he edited Gulf Coast. He is the author of Heavy Lead Birdsong from Write Bloody.