Ryan Felton was born in 1990 and spent the majority of his childhood growing up in Livonia. In 2009, after a short stint at Eastern Michigan University, he moved to Detroit where he has remained ever since. After graduating from Wayne State University’s journalism program, he went on to work as a staff writer for the The Oakland Press of Pontiac, Mich. His writing and reporting have appeared in In These Times, Jalopnik, Pacific Standard Online, Reuters, The Denver Post, and Crain’s Detroit Business. He drinks coffee.
