RYAN DAYdid his growing up nomadically throughout the Southeastern and Midwestern states before landing in Chicago where he studied while working in countless cafes and restaurants, a record store, a parking garage, a movie theater, a wallpaper factory, a domestic violence shelter and a dog walking agency. Tired of rags, leashes and minimum wage, he cast his fortunes and his incurably itchy feet as far from the third coast as possible. He spent the last several years traveling, teaching, studying and writing in Spain and China. He now lives and writes in Phoenix, AZ where he pretends that all the cacti are villains with their hands raised in surrender. He has published stories and poems in magazines in the US, Spain and China.