John Tessitore has been a newspaper reporter, a magazine writer, and a biographer. He has taught British and American history and literature at colleges around Boston and has directed national policy studies on education, civil justice, and cultural policy. He serves as Co-Editor Across the Pond for The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press. His poems have appeared in the The American Journal of Poetry, The Wallace Stevens Journal, The Ekphrastic Review, the Thieving Magpie, Wild Roof and elsewhere. He has also published six chapbooks and a novella available at www.johntessitore.com.