about the author

Burgess Needle is a Tucson writer whose work has most recently appeared in Under the Radar (UK), Decanto (UK), Brittle Star (UK), Blackbox Manifold (UK), Concho River Review, Raving Dove, Centrifugal Eye, Iodine, Full of Crow, Kritya (India), Gutter Eloquence, Origami Condom and Red Fez. His fiction has appeared in BlackMarket Review (UK), 10,000 Tons of Black Ink and Connotation Press. He taught English for two years in the Peace Corps [Thailand, 1967-1969], been a co-director of the Southern Arizona Writing Project, co-published and edited Prickly Pear/Tucson [a poetry quarterly] for five years, and was a school librarian for thirty years. Diminuendo Press has published his first collection of poetry: Every Crow in the Blue Sky. See: everycrowinthebluesky.com. He may be reached at: bbneedle@cox.net.