John Palen’s latest book manuscript, Riding With the Diaspora, won the Sheila-Na-Gig poetry chapbook competition and will come out in 2022. He is also the author of Distant Music, from Mayapple Press, and has recent work appearing or forthcoming in Delmarva Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Willawaw Journal and The MacGuffin. He lives, writes and gardens on the Illinois Grand Prairie.
