Jon PinedaJon Pineda's first collection Birthmark was selected by Ralph Burns as winner of the 2003 Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry Open Competition. The recipient of a Virginia Commission for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship, he teaches in the Englis Department at Old Dominion University and in the MFA program in Creative Writing at Queens University of Charlotte. He lives in Norfolk, Virginia with his wife, Amy, and their two children. Read More Read Less