Roger CraikRoger Craik is a writer and Associate Professor of English at Kent State University Ashtabula. He is the author of I Simply Stared (2002), Rhinoceros in Clumber Park (2003), The Darkening Green (2004), Those Years 2007), Of England Still (2009) and, most recently, DOWN STRANGER ROADS (BlazeVOX [books], 2014). His poetry has appeared in several national poetry journals, such as The Formalist, Fulcrum, The Literary Review and The Atlanta Review. English by birth and educated at the universities of Reading and Southampton, Craik has worked as a journalist, TV critic and chess columnist. Before coming to the USA in 1991, he worked in Turkish universities and was awarded a Beineke Fellowship to Yale in 1990. He is widely traveled, having visited North Yemen, Egypt, South Africa, Tibet, Nepal, Japan, Bulgaria (where he taught during spring 2007 on a Fulbright Scholarship to Sofia University), and, more recently, the United Arab Emirates, Austria, and Croatia. His poems have appeared in Romanian, and from 2013-14 he is a Fulbright Scholar at Oradea University in Romania. Poetry is his passion: he writes for at least an hour, over coffee, each morning before breakfast, and he enjoys watching the birds during all the seasons. Read More Read Less