About Rylan

Rylan Hynes is the Communications & Editorial Director at The Telling Room in Portland, ME. Rylan studied creative writing, theatre, and visual art at College of the Atlantic, and since then has worked with a number of organizations developing copy, designing websites, managing marketing campaigns, public relations, social media, and more; often collaborating closely with executive teams, board members, and development staff on fundraising projects and events.

A writer and consummate bookworm, Rylan has worked with independent bookstores across the country, including Chicago’s Women & Children First. In 2020 Rylan was awarded a Martin Dibner Fellowship by the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance (MWPA) and the Maine Community Foundation to attend the Harvest Writers Retreat for fiction. In 2022, Rylan received a Lit Fest Fellowship from MWPA and helped facilitate the inaugural Maine Lit Fest. In 2024, Rylan will be a writer-in-residence at Monson Arts. Rylan was recently a finalist for the 2024 Maine Chapbook Series and Tin House’s Trans Writers Residency. Currently Rylan serves on the Community Advisory Board for the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance and the board of the Maine Youth Orchestra.

Right now Rylan is reading a bunch of nerdy books about apples and can be reliably found jamming out to David Bowie.

Rylan’s pronouns are they/them/theirs.