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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

    Steve De France is a widely published poet, playwright and essayist both in America and in Great Britain. His work has appeared in literary publications in America, England, Canada, France, Ireland, Wales, Scotland, India, Australia, and New Zealand. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize in Poetry in both 2002 and 2003. A few recent publications include The Wallace Stevens Journal, The Mid-American Poetry Review, Ambit, Atlantic, and The Sun. In England he won a Reader’s Award in Orbis Magazine for his poem “Hawks.” In the United States he won the Josh Samuels’ Annual Poetry Competition (2003) for his poem: “The Man Who Loved Mermaids.” His play THE KILLER had it’s world premier at the GARAGE THEATRE in Long Beach, California (Sept-October 2006). He has received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Chapman University for his writing.

    Steve has traveled widely in the United States. On several occasions he has hitch hiked across America&rode the rails on freight trains across the southwestern United States. He has been a pugilist&a professional table tennis player. He writes poetry and sails a small sailboat in Long Beach, California. He has written&sold scripts for Hollywood&worked as a professional actor in film&television. He received an M.A. in English Literature and a MFA in poetry. Steve continues to teach writing at an obscure inner city college in downtown Los Angeles.

    Some of his literary titles include: Fear and Loathing at the Typewriter (Ginniderra Press) 2006,The Killer: A Play in Three Acts (Quick Silver) 2006, Things to Read on Your Way To Hell (Musclehead Press) 2005, The Killer And Other Politically Incorrect Poems (Xlibris) 2003, Voices At The Waystation (Xlibris) 2003, Luminous Order (Xlibris) 2002, Dream Siege (Alpha Beat Press) 1999, Dancing On The Head Of A Pin (Inevitable Press) 1998, Signals From The Land (Inevitable Press) 1996, What’s It Like Where I am Going? (Inevitable Press) 1996, Ordinary Angers (Inevitable Press) 1993, and Lost In Hollywood (Quick Silver Press) 1989.

His poems have appeared in the following publications:

United Kingdom

    Acumen, Ancient Heart Magazine, Aireings Poetry Journal, Ambit, Apostrophe, Atlantic, Awen/Atlantean Publishing, Blue Fred’s Kitchen, Borderlines/Anglo-Welsh Poetry Society, Carillon Magazine, Cauldron, The Coffee House, Current Accounts, Decanto, Dream Catcher, Fire, Garbaj, Global Tapestry, The Gruel Factory (Horace), The Interpreter’s House, Iota, Krax Magazine, Living Poems/Dragonheart Press, Lookout Magazine, Merge, Never Bury Poetry, The New Writer, Nightingale/Dream Catcher, The Orange Room Review, Orbis, Peace&Freedom Press, Pennine Ink , Pennine Platform, Poetry Monthly, Poetry Nottingham, Pulsar Poetry Magazine, Purple Patch, Quantum Leap, Quarry, The Seventh Quarry , Short Stories Australia, The Smoking Poet, The Snoring Cat, Social Alternatives, South, Splizz, Takahe, Waterways (Ten Penny Players), and Westerly.

United States

    360 Degrees, Alpha Beat Press, Art:Mag, Artisan, Backstreet Quarterly/Clark Street Review, Barbaric Yawp/Boneworld Publishing, Big City Little.com, The Blind Man’s Rainbow, The Blue Mouse, California Quarterly, CER*BER*US, Chiron Review/Kindred Spirit Press, Cimarron Review, Dana Literary Society Online Journal, Down in the Dirt/Scars Publications, Fireweed, Flutter, Freefall, Hellp, The Higginsville Reader, Hiram Poetry Review, The Iconoclast, Illya’s Honey, Kaj-Mahkah, The Kit-Cat Review, Language&Culture, The Laughing Dog, Los, Lucid Moon Review, Lynx Eye, The Mid-American Poetry Review, Mojo Risin’, New Graffiti, New Verse News, The Poet’s Pen/The Society of American Poets, Permafrost, Poem/Huntsville Literary Association, Poesia, Poetry Motel, Rainbow Winds, Red Hawk Review, Satire, The Sounds of Poetry, Stirring, The Sun, Tacenda, Thorny Locust, Through Spider’s Eyes/Rosewater Publications, The Wallace Stevens Journal, Writer’s Bloc, Zillah, ZZZ Zyne

    Grateful acknowledgement is made to the editors of the above publications



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