souls harbor

As a youth, John Ryland often found himself lost in books. This, and a vivid imagination quickly turned into writing stories of his own. The first time he saw his work in print - it was actually a letter he wrote to the observetory after a second grade field trip- he was so thrilled that he knew he wanted to be a writer. His first real publication didn't come until 1997, when he placed a poem in a San Francisco poetry journal. John stopped writing all together for nearly twenty tears as he dealt with personal and famial issues, but began again in earnest in 2018. Since then he has placed various poems and four short stories in both national and regional journals. At the time of this publication he is working on his second novel.