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Ryan Davis

Ryan Davis grew up in a farmhouse in Illinois cornfields. He studied political science in college before working at several non-profits and restaurants, leading long-distance bicycle tours, and traveling. He currently lives, works, and writes with his wife in Tennessee.

Articles by Ryan Davis

Can Driftwood Determine?

Maybe we ought to use our being and thinking not to decide what our lives should be “for” or “against,” but rather what we would like our lives to define.
April 9, 2026

Abandoned Altars

Here, in this shed’s unremarkable pool of silence, I am reminded of other places where silence stretched like an ocean. I happened upon one of those waning shores the previous…
February 29, 2024

Uprooted

We are the blind, each calling out that which we are so sure we see. No longer aware that the sight we now marvel at is little more than one…
September 19, 2022