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A retired English Professor, Sterling Warner taught a wide variety of Composition, Literature, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric courses at two- and four-year colleges and universities. Author of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, Warner’s works include Thresholds (© 1997), Projections: Brief Readings on American Culture (2nd edition © 2003), World Literature and Introduction to Theatre (5th edition © 2008), Visions Across the Americas (8th edition © 2013), and Anthology of World Literature [Until the 17th Century] (6th edition © 2017).

His poems and fiction have appeared in many international literary magazines, journals, and anthologies such as Verse Virtual: An Online Community Journal of Poetry, Anti-Heroin Chic, The Ekphrastic Review, Poetry Life and Times, The Fib Review, Sparks of Calliope, Friday Flash Fiction, Street Lit, the Lothlórien Poetry Journal, and Unlikely Stories Mark V.

Warner also has written several volumes of poetry, including Without Wheels (In the Grove Press © 2005), ShadowCat: Poems (Maple Press © 2008), Memento Mori: A Chapbook Redux (Maple Press © 2010 and CreateSpace © 2015), Edges: Poems (Maple Press © 2012), Rags & Feathers (Maple Press © 2015), Serpent’s Tooth: Poems (Independent Press © 2021), Flytraps: Poems (Independent Press © 2022), Cracks of Light: Pandemic Poems & Fiction 2019–2022 (Annas Bay Books © 2022), Halcyon Days: Collected Fibonacci (Annas Bay Books © 2023), Abraxas: Poems (Kelsay Books © 2024)—as well as Masques: Flash Fiction &. Short Stories (Independent Press © 2020).

A Jim Herndon Award recipient (2013), a Pushcart Award nominee (2014, 2020, 2021), and a Hayward Award winner (2000), Warner was named the Atherton Poet Laureate in 2014. Warner formerly taught in the English Department at Evergreen Valley College, where he served as the Creative Writing Program Director, EVC Author’s Series Organizer, and Leaf by Leaf literary magazine Chief Editor. Warner continues writing, woodworking, fishing, and hosting the Union of Poets “Virtual” Open Mic in Washington State.

Paperback: 144 pages
Publisher: Kelsay Books (January 22, 2024)