Travis Klempan

Travis Klempan is the author of Have Snakes, Need Birds. He was born and raised in Colorado, joining the U.S. Navy to see the world. After realizing most of it is water, Travis returned to the Mile High state, collecting tattoos and degrees along the way. His short fiction and poetry have appeared in such literary venues as Proximity, Windmill, and Bombay Gin. He helped launch a short-lived guerrilla 'zine, and his work has received recognition from Line of Advance, Flyway Journal, and the Veterans Writing Project. He is a member of the Military Writers Society of America and remains in Colorado with his wife, cats, and dogs.