RICHARD NEWMAN is the author of the poetry collections All the Wasted Beauty of the World (Able Muse Press, 2014), Domestic Fugues (Steel Toe Books, 2009), and Borrowed Towns (Word Press, 2005). His poems, stories, and essays have appeared in Best American Poetry, Boulevard, Crab Orchard Review, Midwestern Gothic, New Letters, StoryQuarterly, The Sun, and many other periodicals and anthologies, and have been featured several times on Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac, Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry, Poetry Daily, and Verse Daily. His plays have been performed in San Diego’s North Park Playwright Festival and the Spectrum Festival in St. Louis. A recipient of a 2014 Regional Arts Commission Artist Fellowship, Newman served as editor of River Styx and co-director of the River Styx Reading Series for over twenty years. He currently teaches at the College of the Marshall Islands.