1. Life

2. Bibliography

3. References

Life

Chris Ransick was born in Syracuse, NY and raised in nearby Auburn, in the Finger Lakes region. He earned a B.A from San Francisco State University (1983), an M.A. in journalism from the University of Montana (1988) and an M.A. in English/Creative Writing from the University of California, Davis (1990). During the years he was earning his degrees he worked as a newspaper reporter and editor, and also served as an editorial assistant to the editors of The Last Best Place: A Montana Anthology.

Ransick married Shannon Skaife in 1983 and is the father of two children. He settled with his family in Englewood, Colorado in 1990, where he worked as a college professor for 24 years teaching courses in English, creative writing, screenwriting, film studies, humanities, and media studies. He has been a faculty member at Denver's well regarded literary center, Lighthouse Writers Workshop, since 2005. He was awarded the organization's Beacon Award for Teaching Excellence in 2013.

Ransick has served as a member of PEN USA's Freedom to Write Committee, as well as serving on his local public library board for 8 years. Upon appointment as Denver's poet laureate, he helped establish the city's program supporting literary arts by organizing readings and engaging with a diverse range of literary groups in the city. He was reappointed to a second term as poet laureate and completed his service in 2010.

Bibliography

Never Summer: Poems from Thin Air. Colorado Book Award for poetry, 2003

A Return to Emptiness. Colorado Book Award finalist for fiction, 2005

References

• Single mum
• Single name person
• Singleness
• Single nickel salt
• Single Non-Emergency Number
• Single-nucleotide variant
• Single nucleotide variant
• Single-nucleotide variation
• Single-oar sculling
• Single-occupant vehicle
• Single-occupant vehicle (disambiguation)
• Single-parameter mechanism
• Single-parameter utility
• Single parameter utility
• Single-parametric utility
• Single Parenthood Children and Academia
• Single Parents
• Single Parents (TV series)
• Single particle tracking
• Single-party period of the Republic of Turkey
• Single-party state
• Single-pass transmembrane protein
• Single-pass transmembrane proteins
• Single-payer health care
• Single-pen architecture