John Popielaski

Born in Port Jefferson Station, New York, one year after the Summer of Love, John Popielaski attended SUNY-Stony Brook and American University. He has worked as a mover, lackey to a well-heeled tropical biologist, tent erector, lobsterman, and teacher. He has climbed modest mountains.

A minor poet who, for such biographies, is not above referring to himself in the third person, he is the author of several poetry collections, including Isn't It Romantic? which won the Robert Phillips Chapbook Prize from Texas Review Press. His poems have appeared in such journals as Cave Wall, The Hollins Critic, Post Road, and Redivider.

His first novel, The Hollow Middle, is forthcoming from Unsolicited Press in 2018 or so.