Michael Debenedictis

Michael DeBenedictis lives in Cuyahoga Falls, OH, and has self-published volumes of original poetry, Mr. Swan's Poems (October 2014), After the Flight (March 2015), and Old Embers & New Light (May 2018), two volumes of short stories, Beyond and Between the Veil (June 2015), and Beyond And Between The Veil, Again (October 2018), and volumes of poetry and short stories, When Animals and Folklore Run the Asylum (April 2016), Volume 5 (December 2016), Almost A Journal (April 2017), X Marks The Target & Y Is Where I Landed (September 2017), and Tenacity Of The Ostrich Trying To Fly (January 2018).

The poetry is philosophical, transcendental, thought provoking, lyrical, observational, fun, and light hearted. The short stories are philosophical, allegorical, mysteries, thrillers, symbolic, and charming human tales.

He has been published in Fixional, Inc. - an online literary magazine - in July 2017 and in Across The Way: Shoreline (ISBN #978-1-60880-391-0) December 2014.

His writing influences are Kenneth Patchen, Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Bob Dylan, Billy Corgan, Antoine De Saint Exupery, and John Steinbeck.