Ken Meisel is a poet & psychotherapist from the Detroit area with publication credits that include Spillway, Cream City Review, Concho River Review, Free Lunch, Sulphur River Literary Review, Rattle, River Oak Review, Byrant Literary Review, Soundings East, The Chaffin Journal, and Lake Effect. He is also the author of five poetry collections: Beautiful Rust (Bottom Dog Press, 2009), Just Listening (Pure Heart Press, 2007), Before Exiting (Pure Heart Press, 2006), and Sometimes the Wind (March Street Press, 2002). The chapbook version of Just Listening won the 2006 Swan Duckling chapbook contest.