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Dr. Ryan Thorpe is a novelist, essayist, and poet from America that lives and teaches in Shanghai, China. He is the author of The Willows fantasy trilogy (The Willows, Arcadian Midnight, and The Warden) that was published by Aethon Books. His first scholarly book, Teaching Second Language Creative Writing was published by Routledge. He is currently finishing the textbook series, Writing Through Revision, for Anthem Press.

He serves as the director of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Global College writing program and its writing center and is the Yu Liming Endowed Professor of Writing. He is also the executive director of Inkwell, a literary collective that holds free and public writing workshops in China and throughout Asia (www.inkwell.asia). His culture commentary has appeared in The Global Times, China Daily, and Sixth Tone, and he has published in numerous literary journals.