Ken Meisel is a 2012 Kresge Arts Literary Fellow, Pushcart Prize nominee, Swan Duckling chapbook contest winner, winner of the Liakoura Prize. His books are The Drunken Sweetheart at My Door (FutureCycle Press: 2015), Scrap Metal Mantra Poems (Main Street Rag: 2013), Beautiful Rust (Bottom Dog Press: 2009), Just Listening (Pure Heart Press: 2007), Before Exiting (Pure Heart Press: 2006) and Sometimes the Wind (March Street Press: 2002). He's published poems in Cream City Review, Rattle, Midwestern Gothic, Concho River Review, San Pedro River Review, Boxcar Review, Algebra of Owls, Stoneboat Literary Journal, The Broken Plate, Pirene's Fountain, Firefly.