"A solemn, eerie book of beauty."

Barracuda Guarisco

This book contains micropoetry written by David Estringel with graphic images illustrated by Luca Bowles.

About the Author

David Estringel is a reader/writer/poet/bibliophile and Writing Studies teaching assistant at the University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley, located in Brownsville, Texas (USA). He received his BA in English in 1992 from the University of Texas at Brownsville and will receive his MAIS in English (concentration in Literature & Cultural Studies) Fall 2019. He will also begin his MFA in Creative Writing Spring 2019. Future plans include writing and publishing more his poetry and short-stories, teaching college composition and literature, reading all the books in his library (1310 and counting).

David's poetry, short fiction, and essays have been accepted for publication at Specter Magazine, Literary Juice, Foliate Oak Magazine, Terror House Magazine, Expat Press, 50 Haikus, littledeathlit, Down in the Dirt Magazine, Route 7 Review, Setu Bilingual Journal, Paper Trains Literary Journal, The Elixir Magazine, Soft Cartel, Harbinger Asylum, Briars Lit, Open Arts Forum, Cajun Mutt Press, Former People Journal, The Ugly Writers, Writ in Dust, Cephalopress, Twist in Time, Merak Magazine, Salt Water Soul, Cherry House Press, Subterranean Blue Poetry, Printed Words, Sunflower Sutras, Tulip Tree Publishing, Salt Ink, PPP Ezine, Digging through the Fat, Haiku Journal, Foxhole Magazine, The Basil O'Flaherty, Three Line Poetry, Agony Opera, Siren's Call Ezine, Alien Buddha Press, Alien Buddha Zine, Synchronized Chaos, Pantheon of Poesy, The @baffled Haiku Daily, Blood Moon Rising Magazine, The Blue Nib, Fishbowl Press, Horror Sleaze Trash, Rigorous, Corvus Review, Poetizer, Channillo, and The Good Men Project. He is currently a Poetry Editor at Fishbowl Magazine, Contributing Editor (fiction) at Red Fez, Editor/Writer/Artist in Residence at The Elixir Magazine, fiction reader at riverSedge, Featured Writer/Artist in Residence at Cajun Mutt Press, and columnist at Channillo. He can be found on Twitter (@The_Booky_Man) and his website at http: //davidaestringel.com.

Interviews at South Florida Poetry Journal, Poet Mini Interviews, and Authors Interviews.

David's work has also been accepted for publication in five anthologies: Dreamscapes (Cherry House Press), Briar's Lit Vol. II (Briars Lit), Alien Buddha's House of Horrors (Alien Buddha Press), Psalms of the Alien Buddha (Alien Buddha Press), and DADDY: A Cultural Anthology (Grey Border Books).

His first collection of poetry and prose, Indelible Fingerprints, was published in April 2019 by Alien Buddha Press.

About the Artist

Originally from Rome, Luca graduated from MA 3D Computer Animation at London College of Communication in 2021.