Meet the Readers: Ryan Varadi

Ryan Varadi is a midwestern poet living in Chicago, where he writes on the train on the way to work his retail job. He holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of North Carolina Wilmington and a BA in English from Northwestern University. He served as editorial staff for Ecotone and Chautauqua and as an intern for RHINO Poetry. He currently teaches online workshops with The Porch. He is the recent winner of Frontier Poetry’s 2023 Ekphrastic Prize. His poems appear in Poetry Northwest, River Heron Review, and The Shore, among others. You can find him on Instagram at @ryanvaradi, where he sometimes shares niche playlists and brags too much about being good at bar trivia.

Please join Ryan and our other fantastic readers on Tuesday, September 3, 2024 in the upstairs bar at Hopleaf. Doors open at 7pm, and the show starts at 7:30. It's free, and 21-and-over. Please RSVP on Facebook.