Ryan Eckes is a poet from Philadelphia. He is the author of Wrong Heaven Again (Birds, LLC, 2024), General Motors (Split Lip Press, 2018), Valu-Plus (Furniture Press, 2014) and Old News (Furniture Press, 2011), as well as several chapbooks. His poems have appeared in Prolit, Protean Magazine, Tripwire, Wax Nine Journal, The New York Times Magazine, and elsewhere. With Kim Gek Lin Short, he runs Radiator Press.