John HolbrookJohn Holbrook lives with wife Judith in Missoula, Montana, where he earned his masters degree in Creative Writing from the University of Montana. In 1990 his poem "Petition to Common Sense," won first place in the Florida Poetry Contest, juried by th poet and Novelist, James Dickey. In 1991, his first book, "Clear Water on the Swan," shared first place with short story Writer, Ron Fischer, in Montana Arts Council's First Book Award. In 2002 Pudding House Publications published his chapbook, "Loose Wool, river Tackle, Pencil Drafts," a manuscript which grew out of a grant from the Ludvig Vogelstein Foundation to write a sequence of poems on various rivers in his region. In 2010 Foothills Publishing of Kanona, New York, published his collection "A Clear Blue Sky in Royal Oak." Over the years his work has appeared nation wide in many magazines and periodicals including Antaeus; Barataria review; Big Sky Journal; Cafeteria; Camas, The Carolina Quarterly, Colorado State review; Comstock Review; Cutbank; The Florida Review; Fresh Water Poems (an anthology); Of Frogs and Toads (an anthology); Green Hills Literary Review; Hubbub; Kinesis, Main Street Rag; Mississippi Review; The Nebraska Review; The New Verse News; Pinyon; Poetry Northwest; Rain City Review; The South Carolina Review; Southern Poetry Review; The Talking River Review and the Wisconsin Review, to name a few. Read More Read Less