# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kay-ryan
# Generated: 2026-08-12T16:55:26.708Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kay-ryan"
name: "Kay Ryan"
slug: "kay-ryan"
description: "Kay Ryan is an American poet and educator. She has published seven volumes of poetry and an anthology of selected and new poems. From 2008 to 2010 she was the sixteenth United States Poet Laureate. In 2011 she was named a MacArthur Fellow and she won the Pulitzer Prize."
tagline: "American poet"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/KayRyan08_JLoring-1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1945-09-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.33
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.48671866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "كاي ريان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "کای رایان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Ryan"
    title: "Kay Ryan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Ryan"
    title: "Kay Ryan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Ryan"
    title: "Kay Ryan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Ryan"
    title: "Kay Ryan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%DB%8C_%D8%B1%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "کی رایان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Ryan"
    title: "Kay Ryan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Ryan"
    title: "Kay Ryan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Ryan"
    title: "Kay Ryan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B5%D0%B9"
    title: "Райан, Кей"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://et.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kay_Ryan"
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    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q276423"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump