Scott Holstad

Poet, Fiction Writer

McSherrystown, PA
Pennsylvania US
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Author's Bio

Scott C. Holstad has authored, edited and contributed to 65+ books and has appeared in over 20 languages. His work has appeared in the Minnesota Review, Exquisite Corpse, Caffeine, Wisconsin Review, Pacific Review, Sports Illustrated, the TODAY Show, Poet’s Market, Long Shot, Wormwood Review, Chiron Review, Atom Mind, Sports Illustrated, Pearl, Processed World, Lullwater Review, Southern Review, Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal, Asheville Poetry Review and Poetry Ireland Review. He holds degrees and is an alumnus of the University of Tennessee, Cal State University Long Beach, UCLA, Queens University of Charlotte and the University of Michigan. He has traveled and moved around North America some 35 times and has lived in areas that vary as widely as over -50 degrees below Fahrenheit to mountains, the desert, the perfect temperate climate of Southern California, an island by a quiet beach and now the Gettysburg area, among others. He loves reading and writing, hated teaching, has enjoyed doing and experiencing many things and though "retired," spends time as a member of The Royal United Services Institute for Defence & Security Studies (RUSI), Arendt Scholar with The Hannah Arendt Center for Politics & Humanities, 30-year member of the Authors Guild & Researcher with the American Academy of Neurology (AAN).

Publications & Prizes

Fiction

Journals: , ,
Hidden Peak Press
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Journal of Sister Moon
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Mad Swirl
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Midnight Zoo
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Rendezvous
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The Bond Street Review
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The Heat City Literary Review
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Urban Graffiti
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Venice West Review

Poetry

Anthologies:
Backpack Literature: an Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing, 5th Ed. (Pearson Longman, 2015)
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CA Online (Gale Research Company, 2015)
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Scream When You Burn (Rothco Press, 2013)
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The Southern poetry anthology. Volume VI, Tennessee (Texas Review Press, 2013)
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The Writer’s Directory (Gale Research Company, 2013)
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The Long Way Home: The Best of the Little Red Book Series — 1998-2008 (Lummox Press, 2009)
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Index of American Periodical Verse (Scarecrow Press, 2005)
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In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself, Vol. 6 (MW Enterprises, 2005)
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Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series (Gale Research Company, 2003)
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Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. (Pearson Longman, 2002)
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Biography and Genealogy Master Index (Gale Research Company, 2000)
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The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Vol. 11 (Little Brown, 2000)
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Index of American Periodical Verse (Scarecrow Press, 1999)
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Scream When You Burn: A Pound of Sacred Flesh from the Lap of Coffee Culture (Incommunicado Press, 1998)
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Contemporary Authors (Gale Research Company, 1997)
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Mount Olive College Review: A Sociological-Historical Perspective (Mount Olive College Press, 1996)
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Poetry Markets for Canadians (Mercury House, 1996)
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Who’s Who in Writers, Editors & Poets, United States & Canada (December Press, 1995)
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Speaking Our Truth (Harper Collins, 1995)
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The Best Kept Secrets of the Catholic Church (Tiger Moon Press, 1994)
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Poet's Market (Writer's Digest Books, 1993)
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They Can’t Kill Me Twice (Tiger Moon Press, 1993)
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Tokens of Love (Rio Grande Press, 1993)
Books:
1. Backpack Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing, 5th Ed (Longman/Pearson, 2016)
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4. Instructor’s Manual To Accompany Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing. 5th compact ed. (Pearson Longman, 2007)
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Cells (Publish America, 2004)
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Artifacts (Sick Puppy, 2002)
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Never-ending Cigarettes (Ye Olde Fonte Shoppe, 1999)
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Shadows Before the Maiming (Gothic Press, 1999)
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Shrapnel (Budget Press, 1999)
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Hang Gliding on X (Lummox Press, 1999)
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The Napalmed Soul (Chiron Review Press, 1999)
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Places (SterlingHouse Publisher, Inc., 1995)
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Distant Visions, Again and Again (Poet Tree, 1994)
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Street Poems (Mulberry Press, 1990)
Journals:
96 Inc.
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A Little Poetry
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Aberrations
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Abiko Quarterly
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Afterthoughts
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AIM Magazine
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Alpha Beat Soup
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Alternative Press Review
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Angelflesh
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Apostrophe
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Ariga
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Art-Rag
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Asheville Poetry Review
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Atom Mind
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Axe Factory Review
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Bad Haircut
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Baybury Review
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Beat Scene
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Beatlicks Nashville Poetry Newsletter
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Big Bridge
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Black Bear Review
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Blank Gun Silencer
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Blind Man's Rainbow
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Blow
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Blue Jacket
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Bottomfish
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Bouillabaisse
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Caffeine
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Can We Have Our Ball Back
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Candlestones
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Canvass
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Catharsis
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Chaminade Literary Review
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Circle Magazine
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Clutch
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Cokefish
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Convergence
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Crystal Rainbow
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Curmudgeon
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Dark Regions
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Down in the Dirt
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Dream Forge
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Dream International Quarterly
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Dusty Dog
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Ethereal Dances
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Exquisite Corpse
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First Class
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Flipside
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Fox Cry Review
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Frisson
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Fuel
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Furry Chiclets: A Lawpoets Creation
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Gimlet Eye
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Green's Magazine
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Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal
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Haiku Headlines
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Home Planet News
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Houston's Propaganda
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Howling Dog
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Idiom 23
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Ihcut
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Imago
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Impetus
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In Your Face
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Inky Blue
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Interzone
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Intrepid
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Journal of Kentucky Studies
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Journal of Sister Moon
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Kaleidoscope
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Kiosk
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Kumquat Meringue
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Lilith
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Long Shot
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Lucid Moon
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Lucidity
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Luna Negra
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Lynx
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Mad Swirl
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Malcontent
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Mandrake Poetry Review
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Mattoid
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Mediphors
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Melic Review
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Messages from the Heart
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Midnight Zoo
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Mind in Motion
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Mind Matters Review
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Minnesota Review
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Misfitmagazine
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Mixed Bag
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Moonshade Magazine
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Morpo Review
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Mount Olive Review
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My Favorite Bullet
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Nerve
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New Hope International
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New Kent Quarterly
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Nexus
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Night Roses
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Nihilistic Review
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Northern Stars Magazine
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Open Minds Quarterly
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Open Wide Magazine
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Pacific Coast Journal
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Paisley Moon
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Palo Alto Review
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Paper Radio
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paperplates
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Pearl Magazine
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Pink Pages
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Pittsburgh Quarterly
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Poetic Hours
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Poetic Page
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Poetic Space
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Poetic Voices
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Poetry Ireland Review
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Poetry Monthly
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Poetry Motel
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Poetry Nottingham
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Poetry Plus
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Poetry USA
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Pointed Circle
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Potpourri
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Processed World
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Psychopoetica
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Pulsar Poetry Magazine
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Rag Mag
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Ray's Road Review
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Red Booth Review
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Red Cedar Review
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Red Coral
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Red Dancefloor
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Red River Review
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Red Rock Review
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Remark
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Rendezvous
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Rose and Thorn
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San Fernando Poetry Journal
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Santa Clara Review
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SaucyVox
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Scars
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Shockbox
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Short Fuse
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Sic: Vice & Verse
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Snow Monkey
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South Ash Press
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Southern Ocean Review
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Spent Meat
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Splizz
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Sports Illustrated
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StickYourNeckOut
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Suisun Valley Review
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Tears in the Fence
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Textual Studies in Canada
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The Aguilar Expression
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The Awakenings Review
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The Dandelion Review
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The Harrow
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The Hold
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The New Press Literary Quarterly
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The Nieve Roja Review
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The Nocturnal Lyric
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The Oak
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The Plastic Tower
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The Poet's Haven
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The Rose and Thorn Journal
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The Signal
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Thunder Sandwich
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Tight
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Timber Creek Review
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tin lustre mobile
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Transcendent Visions
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Twisted Savage
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Unlikely Stories
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Urban Graffiti
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Venice West Review
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Way Station Magazine
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Wicked Mystic
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Wind Magazine
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Word Riot
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Wormwood Review
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Write On!
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Xib
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Zuzu's Petals Quarterly
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Zygote in My Coffee

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Bukowski, Ferlinghetti, G Locklin, PK Dick, Feynman, Ed Field, Camus, R Dawkins, Burroughs, Hitchens, Sartre, H Arendt, Kafka, T Pratchett, K Rexroth, T Paine
What I'm reading now: 
The Powhatan Indians of Virginia: Their Traditional Culture by Helen C. Rountree, Kissinger & Cyprus A Study in Lawlessness by Gene Rossides, A Cultish Side of Calvinism by Micah Coate, How Will the Heart Endure? by Alan Catlin, Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody by Helen Pluckrose, Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented by Samuel Moyne

More Information

Gives readings: 
No
Travels for readings: 
No
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Beverly, MA
Massachusetts
Raised in: 
Knoxville, TN
Tennessee
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Last update: Mar 16, 2024