A writer, speaker, and artist, Jon Pearson has been a cartoonist for the Oakland Tribune, an extra for the New York Metropolitan Opera, a college professor, and a mailman. His work has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes and a Million Writers Award and has appeared in Baltimore Review, Barely South Review, Barnstorm, Carve, The Citron Review, Crack the Spine, Evening Street Review, Faultline, Forge, Hobart, Lake Effect, Pretty Owl Poetry, Reed Magazine, Sou’wester, Stickman Review, Superstition Review, Visitant Lit and elsewhere. You can find him online at http://www.jonpearsoncreative.com.