Ahrend TorreyAhrend Torrey, a poet and painter, attended college in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, earning both his MA and MFA in creative writing from Wilkes University. He is the 2014 recipient of the Etruscan Prize awarded by Etruscan Press, and many of his poemshave appeared in numerous journals online and in print. When he is not writing, he enjoys the simpler things in life, like walking around City Park with his partner, Jonathan, and their two rat terriers Dichter and Dova. He makes his home in New Orleans, and is currently working on a new collection of poems titled Bird City. Read More Read Less