John Surowiecki has written seven chapbooks and five full collections of poetry; the most recent, Martha Playing Wiffle Ball in Her Wedding Gown and Other Poems (Encircle), was a finalist for a Connecticut Book Award. His sixth collection, Burger King of the Dead, will be published this spring by Grayson Books. Prizes include the Poetry Foundation Pegasus Award for verse drama, the Nimrod Pablo Neruda Prize, the Washington Prize, a Connecticut Poetry Fellowship, and the silver medal in the Sunken Garden National Competition. John's poetry has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, AMP, Carolina Quarterly, Folio, Gargoyle, Margie, Oyez Review, Mississippi Review, Poetry, Prairie Schoone, Redivider, RHINO, The Southern Review, Tupelo Quarterly, West Branch and Yemassee.