Biography
John Casquarelli is the author of two full-length collections, On Equilibrium of Song (Overpass Books 2011) and Lavender (Authorspress 2014). He serves as Editor for Otter Magazine (http://ottermagazine.com/) and Overpass Books (http://overpassbooks.org/), and is an English Instructor at Trinidad State Junior College. He received his MFA in Creative Writing at Long Island University—Brooklyn. John was awarded the 2010 Esther Hyneman Award for Poetry and the 2015 Petite Kafka Award. He is a member of a literary and art community called the Unbearables (http://unbearables.com/). His work has appeared in the International Higher Education Teaching and Learning Association’s (HETL) anthology, Teaching as a Human Experience (Cambridge Scholars Publishing).Other publishing credits include Storm Cycle: Best of Kind of a Hurricane Press, Suisun Valley Review, Ginosko Literary Journal, Pyrokinection, Visceral Brooklyn, The Lonely Crowd, The Poetry Project Blog, and Kinship of Rivers.
