Shawnte Orion

Shawnte Orion attended Paradise Valley Community College for one day. He is the author of Gravity & Spectacle (a collaboration with photographer Jia Oak Baker from Tolsun Books), The Existentialist Cookbook (NYQBooks) and Faithful as the Ground (Five Oaks Press). His poems have appeared in The Threepenny Review, Barrelhouse, Gargoyle Magazine, Georgetown Review, New York Quarterly and many other journals. He is an editor for rinky dink press and he has been invited to read at bookstores, bars, universities, hair salons, museums, and laundromats.