C L Bledsoe is the author of two poetry collections, _____(Want/Need) and Anthem. A third collection, Riceland, is forthcoming later this year. He has work in over 200 literary journals and anthologies including the New York Quarterly, Barrow Street, Margie, The Cimarron Review, The Arkansas Review, and previously in Right Hand Pointing. CL has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize four times, as well as the Story South Million Writer's Award three times, and won the Blue Collar Review's 2004 Working People's Poetry Contest. He is an editor for Ghoti Magazine