Kenneth Chamlee’s stories have appeared in four previous Personal Story Publishing Project collections, and his poems have been in The North Carolina Literary Review, Tar River Poetry, Cold Mountain Review, Pinesong, Kakalak, and many other places. His latest poetry collections are If Not These Things (Kelsay Books) and The Best Material for the Artist in the World, a poetic biography of 19th-century American landscape painter Albert Bierstadt (Stephen F. Austin University Press). Ken is Emeritus Professor of English at Brevard College in North Carolina and holds a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. He is currently serving as one of the 2022-2023 Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poets for the North Carolina Poetry Society. Learn more at www.kennethchamlee.com