John
Charles Ryan is a writer of poetry, non-fiction,
and research with an interest in plants, fungi, lichens, and human-nature
relationships. Between 2008–20, he lived in Western Australia and New South
Wales. His recent work includes the poetry collection Seeing Trees: A Poetic
Arboretum (with G. Phillips) and the prose anthology The Mind of Plants:
Narratives of Vegetal Intelligence (with P. Vieira and M. Gagliano). In
May–June 2022, he was Interdisciplinary Writer-in-Residence at Oak Spring
Garden Foundation in the United States. He is also an adjunct associate
professor at Southern Cross University, Australia, and adjunct senior research
fellow at the Nulungu Institute, Notre Dame University, Australia.