After a long career in college/university teaching and scholarship, Ron Stottlemyer retired in 2014, devoting his energies to his long-deferred passion for writing poetry.  To date, he has published in 20 poetry magazines and has been awarded a Pushcart Prize for his poem “Falling”(Twyckenham Notes, Autumn 2018), which appears in Volume XLVI of the Pushcart Anthology. A sample of journals in which his work appears includes JuxtaProse, MockingHeart Review, Peregrine, Rust & Moth, Stirring, South Florida Poetry Journal, Split Rock Review, Streetlight Magazine, Temenos, The American Journal of Poetry, The Chattahoochee Review, The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, The Sublunary Review, The Worchester Review, Twyckenham Notes, Maryland Literary Review, and The Midwest Quarterly.