It Was A Dark and Stormy Night....

Bryan D. Dietrich is the author of nine books of poems, Krypton Nights, Universal Monsters, Love Craft, The Assumption, Prime Directive, The Monstrance, The Demeter Diaries, Single Bound, and Starting to Nod. He is also co-editor of Drawn to Marvel, an anthology of superhero poetry. He has published poems in The New Yorker, The Nation, Poetry, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, The Paris Review, The Harvard Review, Yale Review, Asimov’s, Weird Tales, Strange Horizons, and many other journals. Having won The Paris Review Poetry Prize, the “Discovery”/The Nation Award, a Writers at Work Fellowship, the Isotope Editors’ Prize, a Rhysling Award, the Asimov’s Readers’ Choice Award, the Lord Ruthven Award, and the Eve of St. Agnes Prize, Bryan has also been a finalist for the Yale Younger Poets Series, the Walt Whitman Award, the Pablo Neruda Prize, the Bram Stoker Award, and has been nominated multiple times for both the Pushcart and the Pulitzer. His scholarly work has appeared in American Literature, Studies in Short Fiction, Semiotics, the American Journal of Semiotics, Extrapolation, Foundation, Science Fiction Studies, and the Journal of Popular Film & Television. Bryan has served as Head of the Division of Popular Culture and Visual Arts for the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association, Professor of English at Newman University, and is currently a lecturer at Boston University.