John Minczeski, award-winning poet, resides in the Twin Cities where he works and teaches. He's the author of four poetry collections, the editor of three anthologies, and his poems have appeared in journals around the US and abroad, including Poetry East, Quarterly West, Agni, Meridian, Pleiades, Free Lunch, Nowa Okolica Poetow and elsewhere. His honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Bush Foundation Artist's Fellowship, a LIN Grant, The 2000 Akron Poetry Prize, a Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship. He was the Edelstein-Keller Distinguished Fellow at the University of Minnesota in 2005. His manuscripts have been finalists for The National Poetry Series, The Dorset Prize, The Journal Award, The Snowbound Chapbook Prize, The Lena Miles Wever Todd Prize and others. He is the author of two chapbooks that were published in 2007: November, (Finishing Line Press), and Grass Elegy, (Red Dragonfly Press). His fifth full-length poetry collection, "A Letter to Serafin," has just been released by the University of Akron Press. John earned an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College in 1990.