Rodney Wittwer lives in W. Medford, MA. He is the author of "Gone & Gone" (Red Hen Press, 2012), and has been the recipient of awards from the Artist Foundation and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. His poems have appeared in many literary journals, such as Barrow Street, DIAGRAM, The Literary Review, Memorious, Mead, Pleiades, Ploughshares and Verse Daily.