Clif MasonA Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee, Clif Mason lives with his wife, a visual artist, on the edge of a forest in Bellevue, Nebraska. He is the author of KNOCKING THE STARS SENSELESS (Stephen F. Austin State University Press), and three chapbooks: HE BOOK OF NIGHT & WAKING (winner of the Cathexis Northwest Press Chapbook Prize), SELF-PORTRAITS IN WHICH I DO NOT APPEAR (Finishing Line Press), and FROM THE DEAD BEFORE (Lone Willow Press). His work has appeared in Rattle, Southern Poetry Review, The Classical Outlook, Evergreen Review, Poet Lore, Iota (UK) and Orbis International Literary Journal (UK), among many others. His poems have been featured at and/or awarded prizes by the Joe Gouveia Outermost Poetry Contest (selected by Marge Piercy as First Place in the National Category & Grand Prize winner), Negative Capability Press, Cathexis Northwest Press, Plainsongs, Writers' Journal, SPSM&H, Amelia, the Midwest Writers' Conference, and the Academy of American Poets. He is a former Fulbright Fellow to Rwanda, Africa. Read More Read Less