Patric PepperPatric Pepper is the author of two other collections of poetry, a chapbook, Zoned Industrial, Poet-to-Poet's 2000 Medicinal Purposes Chapbook Contest winner (Banty, expanded second edition, 2010), and a full-length collection, Temporary Apprehensions winner of the 2004 Washington Writers' Publishing House Poetry Prize. From 2008 through 2013, Pepper was President of Washington Writers' Publishing House, a cooperative poetry and fiction press that began publishing in 1975 and has published well over 100 books to date. He continues to volunteer with WWPH, currently serving as Production Coordinator. His work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including most recently Beltway Poetry Quarterly, The Broadkill Review, Cape Cod Poetry Review, Confrontations, District Lines, Fugue, Gargoyle, and The Innisfree Poetry Journal. With his wife, the poet Mary Ann Larkin, he is cofounder and publisher of Pond Road Press. A native Washingtonian, he lives in Northeast D.C. and North Truro, Massachusetts. Read More Read Less