Barry W. North is a seventy-year-old retired refrigeration mechanic. He lives with his wife, Diane in Hahnville, Louisiana. Since his retirement in 2007, he has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize, won the 2010 A. E. Coppard Prize for Fiction, and Honorable Mention in the 2011 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards. He was recently named a finalist in the 2014 Lascaux Poetry Awards and his poem will appear in the 2015 Lascaux Prize Anthology. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Paterson Literary Review, Slipstream, Green Hills Literary Lantern, Amoskeag, and many others. His published chapbooks are Along the Highway, Terminally Human, and In the Maze. For more information please visit his website www.barrynorth.org