About the Editor
Ryan Masters founded The Bathyspheric Review while serving as the 2002/2004 Whitney Latham Lechich poet-in-residence. An avid surfer and diver, Masters grew up swimming and surfing the Monterey Bay. After a 12-year period of travel and study which found him in the Northwest, Asia, Alaska, and Quebec, Masters returned to the Monterey Bay for five years before relocating to Charlotte, North Carolina.
As a literary editor, Masters cut his teeth as the assistant editor of National Cheng Kung University's bilingual journal Fiction & Drama from 1995-1996 in Tainan City, ROC. He then co-edited the University of Alaska Fairbanks' journal Permafrost from 1997-1998.
Masters' poetry has been published in a wide range of literary journals including The Iowa Review, The Pedestal Magazine, California Quarterly, The Absinthe Literary Review, The Tule Review, The Porter Gulch Review, Whimperbang, Wilmington Blues, bottle rockets, Gin Bender, Poetry Motel, Plum Ruby Review and many others. His work has been included in So Luminous the Wildflowers: An Anthology of California Poetry (Tebot Bach, 2003) and a chapbook, below the low-water mark, is available from Pudding House Publications (2003). In 2004, he edited the Anthology of Monterey Bay Poets (Chatoyant Press) which NEA President Dana Gioia called, "terrific...Individual poems demand appreciation- yet the collective success exceeds any one poem's strength." For sample poetry and to order The Anthology of Monterey Bay Poets, click here.
Masters' prose has appeared in over 40 other magazines, newspapers and websites including Surfer Magazine, The Surfer's Journal, and Scuba Diving Magazine. He spent three years as a Staff Writer at The Monterey County Weekly and also taught Creative Writing at CSU Monterey Bay. A novel, Trampoline Games, took second place in the 2000 Anvil Press 3-Day Novel Contest. His short fiction has been published in such literary journals as The Big Ugly Review and Rhapsoidia. He is the author of several screenplays and In A Texan Paradise Found, a rock musical about David Koresh which was produced by Seattle's (sadly defunct and sorely missed) Velvet Elvis Arts Lounge Theater in 1995. He also likes to swim in big water and shoot pictures (click here for some samples). Finally, Masters is a prolific songwriter who's fronted a number of bands including The Suborbitals.
2007 Poetry Readings
January:
17th: Poetry and songs at East Village Coffehouse, Washington and Pearl, Monterey. 373-5601. 8pm.
February:
17th: Poetry and songs at Diva Dulce, 99 Pacific Street, Suite 255, Monterey. 521-9581.
2006 Poetry Readings
March:
3rd: Poetry and songs at Bay Books & Coffeehouse, 316 Alvarado St, Monterey. 8pm.
April:
27th: Songwriter's Showcase, Monterey Live, 414 Alvarado St, Monterey. 8pm.646-1415.
May:15th: Poetry at The Works, 667 Lighthouse Ave, Pacific Grove. 7pm. 372-2242.
July:18th: "Fear and Loathing in Monterey County: Adventures of an Alternative Journalist." Lecture followed by Q&A at the Central Coast Writers Branch of the California Writers Club. 7pm.
2005 Poetry Readings
January:
8th: Anthology of Monterey Bay Poets Release Party - At The Attic, 913 Pacific Avenue, 2nd floor, Santa Cruz. 7pm.
22nd: Anthology of Monterey Bay Poets Release Party - At The Pacific Grove Art Center, 568 Lighthouse Ave, Pacific Grove. 5pm.
April:
6th: Anthology of Monterey Bay Poets Reading. At Capitola Books, 1475 41st Avenue, Capitola. 7pm.
July:11th: Santa Cruz Independent Voices Reading. At the Santa Cruz Art League, 526 Broadway Avenue, Santa Cruz. 7:30pm.
October:26: Featured reader at the Rubber Chicken Poetry Slam. 498 Washington St., Monterey.
November:
11th: National Writers Union Reading Series. At the Sunset Center, Carmel. 7:30pm.
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