R.T. Castleberry is a widely published poet and social critic. He was a co-founder of the Flying Dutchman Writers Troupe, co-editor/publisher of the poetry magazine Curbside Review and an assistant editor for Lily Poetry Review and Ardent. In 1999, his work was chosen for the Metro Downtown Transit Streets Project “Texts In Context,” in Houston, Texas. His chapbook Arriving at the Riverside appeared in 2010; an e-book, Dialogue and Appetite, in 2011.