John Peter HarnJohn Harn was raised in Michigan and lived his adult life in Oregon. His first full-length collection, Physics for Beginners, won the 2017 Blue Light Book Award and was published that year in San Francisco. His second collection, Witness (Kelsay Book), appeared in 2019. Now retired, he worked with international students for three decades in the US and abroad as a teacher and administrator. He's taught poetry workshops at the University of Oregon, Pacific University and the Oregon State Penitentiary and was a Teaching Artist at The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. He has exhibited poems in several art galleries in Oregon and currently hosts the Studio 7 Poetry Reading Series in Eugene. His poems have appeared in Carolina Quarterly, Chicago Quarterly, Denver Quarterly, Hotel Amerika, Miramar, New Orleans Review, Northwest Review, Pleiades, Post Road, Prairie Schooner, South Carolina Review, Spillway and other journals. Married to Etsuko Matsunaga, he is the father of three grown daughters. Read More Read Less