Ryan Kindred is a Pittsburgh-based writer, editor, and social services worker. His fiction and poetry grapple with the tension between masculinity, connectedness, and illness. He earned an MFA from Chatham University, where he received the Creative Excellence Award. His work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize & PEN/Dau Award. He previously published under the name RK Taylor.
Selected work
(Second) First Dance
The Sunlight Press, 2024
FictionFlashLiterary
Portrait of Chronic Pain as an Insect
Inscape, 2020
Poetry
On Segregation
Blue Earth Review, 2019
Poetry
Movo's Tree
Scribble, 2018
FictionShort StoryComing-of-Age
Aren't You Happy
Sonder Midwest, 2019
FictionFlashLiterary
