Neil Carpathios

Neil Carpathios is the author of seven full-length poetry collections: Playground of Flesh (Main Street Rag, 2006), At the Axis of Imponderables (winner of the Quercus Review Press Book Award, 2007), Beyond the Bones (FutureCycle Press, 2009), Confessions of a Captured Angel (Terrapin Books, 2016), Far Out Factoids (FutureCycle Press, 2017), The Door on Every Tear (Wipf and Stock, 2020), and Lifeaholics Anonymous (Kelsay Books, 2023). His chapbooks have all resulted from awards in national competitions, most recently, The Function of Sadness (Slipstream Press, 2015). He is the editor of the anthology, Every River on Earth: Writing from Appalachian Ohio (Ohio University Press, 2015). He also is the author of The Lost Fragments of Heraclitus (Wipf and Stock, 2022), a book of original aphorisms. He attended the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop (M.F.A.) and currently is Writer-in-Residence at Malone University in Canton, Ohio.