Ron Paul Salutsky

Ron Paul Salutsky was born and raised in Somerset, Kentucky, and now lives in Tallahassee, Florida. The author of the poetry collection Romeo Bones (Steel Toe Books, 2013) and translator for Karen Wild Diaz's Anti-Ferule (winner of the Toad Press International Chapbook Series 2015), he's currently owner of Red Oak Real Estate, LLC. Find more at www.salutsky.com.

Previous and forthcoming poems and prose appear with Prairie Schooner, Narrative, Colorado Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Asheville Poetry Review, the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP), Louisville Review, Verse Daily, the Poetry Foundation, Interim, Ninth Letter, Red Rock Review, The Cafe Review, St. Petersburg Review, Apalachee Review, Copper Nickel, America Invertida: An Anthology of Younger Uruguayan Poets, & others.

"In ROMEO BONES, dialect becomes a vivid geography. Salutsky describes distances and altitudes with colloquial fervor. The distances are hearts removed from home. The altitudes are soul-making. Here are poems measured to an exacting world."

-Donald Revell, author of TANTIVY