Tony Barnstone’s books of poems include
Sad Jazz: Sonnets (Sheep Meadow Press, 2005),
Impure (
University Press of Florida, 1998), and a chapbook:
Naked Magic. His book of
Chinese Erotic Poetry (Everyman, 2008) and
The Golem of Los Angeles (
Red Hen Press, Benjamin Saltman Award winner) are due out this fall. He has received many prizes and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council. He lived for years in Greece, Spain, Kenya and China before taking his M.F.A and Ph.D. at UC Berkeley. He is now Professor of English at Whittier College.
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