M.J. (Michael Joseph) Arcangelini was born 1952 in western Pennsylvania, grew up there & in Cleveland, Ohio. He's resided in northern California since 1979 and currently lives in Sonoma County. He began writing poetry at age 11. His work has been published in a lot of little magazines (including e James White Review, White Crane Journal, Whisky Island, Taproot, ArtCrimes, Ev'ryman, Splitw*sky, RFD, BEAR Magazine, Jonathan, lilliput, Rusty Truck, The Ekphrastic Review, The Gasconade Review) and over a dozen anthologies. He is the author of the full length collection With Fingers at the Tips of My Words (2002) from Beautiful Dreamer Press (http: //www.beautifuldreamerpress.com/ ) and the chapbooks Room Enough (2016) and Waiting for the Wind to Rise (2018) both from Night Ballet Press (http: //nightballetpress.blog spot.com). A chapbook, Pawning My Sins, is scheduled for 2019 from NightBallet Press. He maintains an occasional blog with memoirs and poems at https: //joearky.wordpress. com/ Arcangelini has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.