Ryan Cheng
Assistant Professor of Instruction
CONTACT
Office: CPR 286
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BIO
Ryan Cheng is a poet and educator from northern California. His experience includes over ten years of teaching creative and academic writing both in California, ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬ and overseas. He is the winner of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs’ Intro Journals Project Award for Poetry (2013), the Bettye Newman Poetry Award (2013), and first place in ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬â€™s Humanities Institute Annual Poetry Contest judged by Jorie Graham (2013).
His poems have appeared in Quarterly West, The Ignation, and elsewhere. He is currently working on a poetry manuscript concerned with being a first-time father of a daughter, while grappling with his own childhood, masculinity, ethnicity, and nature.
He currently lives in Tampa, ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬ where he teaches both professional and technical writing and creative writing courses.
EDUCATION
- MFA, University of South ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬, Poetry
- BA, University of San Francisco, English
AREA OF SPECIALTY
- Creative Writing: Poetry
- Professional and Technical Communication