Kerry Ryan writes plays, poetry and prose. She has won the Spilling Ink Short Story Prize and has been published in The Manchester Review, The Kenyon Review, 3am Magazine among others. She is contributing editor of ‘So Long as You Write’ an anthology of women’s words on writing published in June 2022. She is the founder of Write like a Grrrl which is now taught across the globe and Collectivity–a collective for experienced and emerging writers. She has a MLitt and a PhD in Literary Studies & Creative Writing.