Brendan Ryan grew up on a dairy farm at Panmure in Western Victoria.
His first collection of poetry, Why I Am Not a Farmer was published by Five Islands Press in 2000.
He has had poems and essays published in The Age, Australian Book Review, Island, Heat,
Meanjin, Southerly as well as The Best Australian Poetry (U.Q.P) series,
and The Best Australian Poems series (Black Inc.).
His second collection of poetry, A Paddock In His Head, was published with Five Islands Press in 2007,
and was short-listed for the 2008 ACT Poetry Prize.
He was awarded a Longlines Residency at Varuna in 2007.
A third collection of poetry, A Tight Circle, was published with Whitmore Press in 2008.
He lives in Portarlington, Victoria.
