Recipient of a Wallace Stegner and NEA Creative Writing Fellowships, Hugh Behm-Steinberg is the author of two collections of poetry, Shy Green Fields (No Tell Books) and The Opposite of Work (2nd Edition, Doubleback Books). In 2015 his short story "Taylor Swift" won the Barthelme Prize for short fiction, and his story "Goodwill" was picked as one of the Wigleaf Top Fifty Very Short Fictions of 2018. His most recent book, Animal Children, a collection of prose poems and micro-fiction, was published by Nomadic Press in 2020. He teaches writing and literature at California College of the Arts.
Despite the blurry, dare-I-say-all-to-typical-bad-cover-art-for-a-chapbook, the prose poems inside don't disappoint. I'll probably do a proper review of this book for Coldfrontmag.com so all I'll say is to read it and then read it again.