Western Dream by Douglas Cole

Douglas Cole has had work in The Chicago Quarterly Review, Red Rock Review, Louisiana Literature, Cumberland Poetry Review, and Midwest Quarterly. He has work available online as well in The Adirondack Review, Salt River Review, and Avatar Review, among others, and he recorded a story for Bound Off. He published a novella as a chapbook through the Overtime series of Workers Write Journal. He also won the Leslie Hunt Memorial Prize in Poetry for a selection called, “The Open Ward;” a Best of Poetry Award from Clapboard House; First Prize in the “Picture Worth 500 Words” poetry contest by Tattoo Highway, as well as an honorable mention from Glimmer Train. He lives in Seattle, Washington and teaches writing and literature at Seattle Central College, where he is also the advisor for the literary journal, Corridors.