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Ryann Stevenson

Ryann Stevenson is the author of the forthcoming Human Resources, winner of the 2021 Max Ritvo Poetry Prize (Milkweed Editions, June 2022). Her poems have appeared in The Adroit Journal, Bennington Review, Columbia Poetry Review, The Cortland Review, and Denver Quarterly, among others.

Poetry

Mar/Apr 2022

Fatigue

By Ryann Stevenson

I come home to announce my second fender bender in six months. Where is it I go, my husband wants to know. On the TV, a man says women are […]

Poetry

Mar/Apr 2022

The Valley

By Ryann Stevenson

We want them to look and act human but not too real. Get it? my boss said, touching the dip in a line graph— the Uncanny Valley. We worked on […]