Jerry Ryan Non-Member Joined 2008

I have written columns for newspapers and magazine

Poetry Nonfiction

I am an award-winning writer having written for Chicago and suburban papers and magazines.

In May 2007, St. Martin’s Press published “A.K.A.” in the anthology, Next Stop Hollywood, Short Stories Bound for the Screen.

My poetry has appeared in The Prairie Light Review, won the Mountainland Publishing Poetry Grand Prize and received an award in the Fifth International Poetry Contest in the Firstwriter.com Magazine.”

“And The Road Goes On Forever, won first place in the Creative Nonfiction contest in the Bacopa Literary Review 2021.

In April, 2022, the poem “Lip Jazz” appeared in the magazine Jerry Jazz Musician.

In September, 2022 the short story “A Saturday Night” appeared in Stories Through the Ages Baby Boomers Plus 2022.

In May 2023, Inspired Magazine published “Making the Grade”

Location:

Elgin, IL

Birthdate:

6 December