David Memmott’s novel, The Furnace Room, is forthcoming in Spring 2026 from Serving House Books. He has published five books of poetry, two novels and a story collection. His newest collection, Small Matters Mean the World, is forthcoming in 2022 from Redbat Books Pacific Northwest Writers Series and his Vietnam-era fantasy, Canned Tuna was published by Redbat in 2017) His long poem, “Where the Yellow Brick Road Turns West,” which appears in Lost Transmissions was a finalist for the 2010 Spur Award from Western Writers of America and the collection was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award in Poetry. The Larger Earth: Descending Notes of a Grounded Astronaut was selected as one of 150 best poetry books for 150 years of Oregon statehood by Poetry Northwest and Oregon State Library. He is a Fishtrap Fellow, a Playa resident and recipient of three Fellowships for Publishing from Literary Arts, Inc., for his work as editor and publisher of Wordcraft of Oregon, LLC.  He is the founder of Phantom Drift: A Journal of New Fabulism. He lives in La Grande, Oregon, with his wife, Sue, and two yellow labs. More info can be found on his author website: davidmemmott.com. Photo by Sue Memmott.