Ryan Masters is a writer and poet from Santa Cruz, CA. He spent a decade on staff at the Santa Cruz Sentinel and The Monterey County Weekly. He is a frequent contributor to The Surfer's Journal and former poet-in-residence for the City of Pacific Grove, CA. The author of a chapbook, below the low-water mark, his work has also appeared in publications such as The Iowa Review, Catamaran Literary Reader, The Portland Review, Tule Review, and Unlikely Stories. His first collection of fiction, Above an Abyss: Two Novellas was published by Radial Books in December 2018. Read the Kirkus Review here: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-revie... [2]