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Daniel Crocker’s work has appeared in The Los Angeles

Review, Hobart, Big Muddy, New World Writing, Stirring, Juked,

The Chiron Review, The Mas Tequila Review, and over 100

others. His books include Like a Fish (full length) and The One

Where I Ruin Your Childhood (e-chap with thousands of

downloads) both from Sundress Publications. Green Bean

Press published several of his books in the ‘90s and early 2000s.

These include People Everyday and Other Poems, Long Live

the 2 of Spades, the novel The Cornstalk Man and the short

story collection Do Not Look Directly Into Me. He has also

published several chapbooks through various presses. His

newest full-length collection of poetry, Shit House Rat, was

published by Spartan Press in September of 2017. Stubborn

Mule Press published Leadwood: New and Selected Poems

–1998-2018 (available now on Amazon and Barnes & Noble)

in October 2018. He was the first winner of the Gerald

Locklin Prize in poetry. He is the editor of The Cape Rock

(Southeast Missouri State University) and the co-editor of

Trailer Park Quarterly. He’s also the host of the podcast,

Sanesplaining, about poetry, mental illness, and nerd stuff.

He is a bipolar, bisexual Gemini who lives, teaches and writes

in Missouri.

John Dorsey lived for several years in Toledo, Ohio. He is

the author of several collections of poetry, including Teaching

the Dead to Sing: The Outlaw’s Prayer (Rose of Sharon Press,

2006), Sodomy is a City in New Jersey (American Mettle

Books, 2010), Tombstone Factory, (Epic Rites Press, 2013),

Appalachian Frankenstein (GTK Press, 2015) Being the Fire

(Tangerine Press, 2016) and Shoot the Messenger (Red Flag

Press, 2017) and Your Daughter’s Country (Blue Horse Press,

2019). His work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

He may be reached at [email protected].