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About Ryan Boudinot
- Ryan Boudinot is an American writer.
- He was born on November 6, 1972, in St.
- Croix, United States Virgin Islands.
- He was educated at Evergreen State College and Bennington College.
- He is the author of several books, including The Octopus Rises, Blueprints of the Afterlife, The Littlest Hitler: Stories, and Misconception.
- The latter three have been nominated for the Washington State Book Award.
- Blueprints of the Afterlife was also nominated for the Philip K.
- Dick Award and has been published in translation in the Czech Republic and Spain.
- He edited Seattle, City of Literature, an anthology featuring essays by over thirty writers. Boudinot worked for Amazon as a customer service representative from 1998-2000, during a period when the company went from just selling books to venturing into a myriad other product categories.
- He was part of a team that launched what became the company's marketplace platform.
- He returned to Amazon from 2004-2007 as an editor on the DVD team, merchandising releases for movie studios including 20th Century Fox and the Criterion Collection.
- As most Amazon employees do, he received a lot of free movies, and now boasts a large collection of the Criterion Collection.
- His technology career has also included editorial positions at Netflix, Microsoft, and Expedia. In 2013, Boudinot founded Seattle City of Literature, a nonprofit organization that managed Seattle's bid to join the UNESCO Creative Cities network. In 2016, Boudinot founded Starbird Reality, a think tank and content studio specializing in virtual reality and immersive audio technology based at the University of Washington's VR startup incubator, CoMotion Labs.
- He lives in Seattle.
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