Ryan Wilcox is a senior English major at Ball State
University, with minors in German and History. He was a member of
the design team for the Our Land, Our Literature website,
as well as the author of the Theodore Dreiser, Ernie Pyle, and Jean
Garrigue entries, and a series of poetry and prose entitled my
indiana=your indiana=our indiana, reflecting life in the
Hoosier state. Having been born in Kokomo and lived in Noblesville,
Ryan is a native of central Indiana. He has studied and written
about Modernist poetry and Postmodern prose, and recently completed
a hyper-criticism project on William
Burroughs’ Nova Trilogy. Ryan writes poetry and prose,
and is looking forward to graduate studies in writing on the east
coast after finishing his undergraduate degree at BSU in May. He
is also currently a co-editor and web designer for the Ball State
University English Department undergraduate literary journal on
the Internet, the
broken plate.