Ralph Bland is the author of seventeen novels and four collections of stories. His work includes Stars Rain Sun Moon, Lockhart, and Lamb White Days. Ralph is a graduate of Belmont University, married with a daughter and three very spoiled dogs, and on numerous occasions likes disguising himself as a normal person. When not coercing himself to write he spends his time suffering over the heartbreaks of the Vanderbilt Commodores basketball team, lounging in his backyard with his adorable dogs, or tinkering with his 1949 Wurlitzer jukebox, trying to determine why one day it works and the next day it doesn’t, knowing full well that because he is a mechanical idiot he will never know the answer. A lover of Universal monster movies and British sports cars that don’t run, he is the proud owner of perhaps the South’s largest Frank Sinatra audio collection, as if that has anything to do with the price of tea in China. Visit his website here.
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Barney Warren is a native Brooklynite whose urge to write poetry grew out of an abiding love for the New York Yankees of the era in which he was raised. Barney has outgrown neither his urge to write nor his love for the Yankees of that bygone era. However, his subject matter now includes everything that reaches his very city-honed sense receptors. His mind is a fully actuated urban development master plan, and he doesn’t expect to be nominated for Cowboy Poet of the Year. Here are links to his three volumes of selected poems: Meditations for the Night Shift, Wick to Wick and Zero Mass.
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