John Rybicki

Poet John Rybicki was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. He is the author of three poetry collections: When All the World Is Old (Lookout Books, 2012), Traveling at High Speeds (New Issues Press, 1996), and We Bed Down into Water (Northwestern, 2008). When All the World Is Old was written in response to the long illness and death of Rybicki’s wife, the poet Julie Moulds. His poems have been published in The Best American Poetry 2008, Alaska Quarterly Review, Field, Paris Review, and Poetry magazine.

Rybicki has been a writer-in-residence at Alma College in Alma, Michigan. He teaches poetry to young writers through the InsideOut literary arts project and Wings of Hope Hospice and lives in Michigan with his son.