Ryan PettyRyan Petty lives in a ferryboat town near Seattle with his wife Melissa and the ghost of a cross-eyed Alaskan Malamute named Kodiak. Ryan studied creative writing at Princeton under Jerzy Kosinski and Anthony Burgess and was, for a decade thereafter,the proprietor of Austin, Texas-based Cold Mountain Press, a small independent publisher of signed, limited editions in poetry and fiction. He writes novels in verse, historical fiction, and books for children. Read More Read Less