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Ryan Van Cleave

Born: 1972 in Neenah, Wisconsin
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Ryan was raised in Chicago, Illinois

Biography: Ryan lives in Sarasota, FL where he works as a freelance writer, a writing coach, a Liberal Arts department faculty member at The Ringling College of Art & Design, and a digital addiction & recovery consultant.


Awards:

Primary Literary Genre(s): Fiction; Non-Fiction; Poetry

Email: vancleave88@yahoo.com
Website: http://www.wix.com/ryanvancleave/ryanvancleave
Ryan Van Cleave on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=ryan+van+cleave


Selected Titles

Breathe :
ISBN: 098150101X OCLC: 609541390

C & R Press, Chattanooga, Tenn. : ©2009.

Contemporary American poetry :
ISBN: 0321095782 OCLC: 50292692

Longman, New York : ©2003.

Features a collection of poetry from some of America's best poets and provides original commentaries and suggested exercises to help the reader explore the meaning behind these poets' works.

Ha Ha Tonka :
ISBN: 0963518577 OCLC: 50809130

Higganum Hill Books, Higganum, Conn. : ©2003.

Imagine the dawn :
ISBN: 1932339922 OCLC: 70053615

Turning Point, Cincinnati, OH : ©2005.

Landscape & dream :
ISBN: 0945083106 OCLC: 58026288

Louisiana Literature Press, Louisiana : 2004.

Say hello /
ISBN: 1877603724 OCLC: 47266474

Pecan Grove Press, San Antonio, Tex. : 2000.

  The voices of poetry :
ISBN: 0321107616 OCLC: 436041426

Longman, [Place of publication not identified] : 2003.

Poems read by their authors: Kim Addonizio, Dick Allen, David Baker, Wanda Coleman, Denise Duhamel, Peter Meinke, Virgil Suárez, Ronald Wallace, Miller Williams. Also including interviews of Denise Duhamel and Virgil Suárez by Ryan Van Cleave.

Unplugged :
ISBN: 9780757393648 OCLC: 698471801

Health Communications, Deerfield Beach, FL : ©2010.

WARNING: This video game may impair your judgment. It may cause sleep deprivation, alienation of friends and family, weight loss or gain, neglect of one's basic needs as well as the needs of loved ones and/or dependents, and decreased performance on the job. The distinction between fantasy and reality may become blurred. Play at your own risk. Not responsible for suicide attempts, whether failed or successful. No such warning was included on the latest and greatest release from the Warcraft series of massive multiplayer on-line role-playing games (MMORPGs) World of Warcraft (WoW). So when the author, a college professor, husband, father, and one of the 11.5 million Warcraft subscribers worldwide found himself teetering on the edge of the Arlington Memorial Bridge, he had no one to blame but himself. He had neglected his wife and children and had jeopardized his livelihood, all for the rush of living a life of high adventure in a virtual world. Ultimately, he decided to live, but not for the sake of his family or for a newly found love of life: he had to get back home for his evening session of Warcraft. This book takes us on a journey through his semi-reclusive life with video games at the center of his experiences. Even when he was sexually molested by a young school teacher at age eleven, it was the promise of a new video game that lured him to her house. As his life progresses, we witness the evolution of videogames from simple two-button consoles to today's complicated multi-key technology, brilliantly designed to keep the user actively participating. As is the case with most recovering addicts, he eventually hits rock bottom and shares with the reader his ongoing battle to control his impulses to play, providing prescriptive advice and resources for those caught in the grip of this very real addiction--Page 4 of cover.

Unplugged :
ISBN: 0757313620 OCLC: 449881163

Health Communications, Deerfield Beach, FL : ©2010.

"WARNING: This video game may impair your judgment. It may cause sleep deprivation, alienation of friends and family, weight loss or gain, neglect of one's basic needs as well as the needs of loved ones and/or dependents, and decreased performance on the job. The distinction between fantasy and reality may become blurred. Play at your own risk. Not responsible for suicide attempts, whether failed or successful. No such warning was included on the latest and greatest release from the Warcraft series of massive multiplayer on-line role-playing games (MMORPGs) World of Warcraft (WoW). So when the author, a college professor, husband, father, and one of the 11.5 million Warcraft subscribers worldwide found himself teetering on the edge of the Arlington Memorial Bridge, he had no one to blame but himself. He had neglected his wife and children and had jeopardized his livelihood, all for the rush of living a life of high adventure in a virtual world. Ultimately, he decided to live, but not for the sake of his family or for a newly found love of life: he had to get back home for his evening session of Warcraft. This book takes us on a journey through his semi-reclusive life with video games at the center of his experiences. Even when he was sexually molested by a young school teacher at age eleven, it was the promise of a new video game that lured him to her house. As his life progresses, we witness the evolution of videogames from simple two-button consoles to today's complicated multi-key technology, brilliantly designed to keep the user actively participating. As is the case with most recovering addicts, he eventually hits rock bottom and shares with the reader his ongoing battle to control his impulses to play, providing prescriptive advice and resources for those caught in the grip of this very real addiction"--Page 4 of cover.

 

 

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