John C RyanBorn in the United States, John C. Ryan is a poet, critic, ethnographer, and naturalist who lived in Australia for more than a decade. His poetry focuses on the plant life of Australia, North America, and Southeast Asia. His published poetry books inlude Two With Nature, New Perspectives on Tablelands Flora, Primavariants (with Glen Phillips), The Earth Decides, and Seaweed: A Book of Algae. He edited an issue of Plumwood Mountain on the theme "plant poetics" and co-edited the scholarly books The Language of Plants and Australian Wetland Cultures. Read More Read Less