Ryan Masters is a writer, poet, musician, and bodysurfer from Santa Cruz, CA. He spent a decade on staff at the Santa Cruz Sentinel and The Monterey County Weekly. His words have appeared in publications such as The Iowa Review, Catamaran Literary Reader, Gargoyle Magazine, Tule Review, Portland Review, Unlikely Stories, The Surfer’s Journal, Surfer, Scuba Diving, and many others. Above an Abyss: Two Novellas, his first collection of fiction, was published in 2018. Ryan’s a longtime member of the Santa Cruz Body Surfing Association. He co-founded the OB Big Wave Bodysurfing Challenge and founded 2020’s California Bodysurf Freakout. Ryan is also a founding member of Smoke Chaser and The Suborbitals, two original rock bands. Finally, he’s an EMT-Firefighter with the Zayante Fire Protection District.
