Ryan Teitman is the author of the poetry collection Litany for the City, selected by Jane Hirshfield as the winner of the A. Poulin Jr. Prize and published by BOA Editions. He worked as a newspaper reporter in Philadelphia before earning an MFA in Creative Writing and an MA in English at Indiana University. He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University and his poems have appeared in Ninth Letter, The Southern Review, Sycamore Review, Third Coast, and many other journals. He was the winner of the Fineline Competition from Mid-American Review, an AWP Intro Journals Award winner in poetry, and a finalist for a Ruth Lilly Fellowship. He is currently the 2012-2013 Emerging Writer Lecturer at Gettysburg.