David Memmott has published five books of poetry, a novel and a story collection. Recent work has been published by Strange Horizons, High Desert Journal, Windfall and in the anthologies, Deer Drink the Moon: Poems of Oregon, Salt: An Oregon Coastal Poetry Anthology, Writers on the Job: Tales of the Non-Writing Life and The Alchemy of Stars: An Anthology of Rhysling Award Winners. He has an interview as well as a review of his postcyberpunk novel, Primetime, in the on-line arts magazine, Perigee, #20 (May 2008).

Memmott is a Fishtrap Fellow and has received three Fellowships for Publishing from Literary Arts, Inc. His newest book is the poetry collection, Giving It Away, and his novel, Canned Tuna, is nearing completion. He is the editor and publisher of Wordcraft of Oregon. His author website is at: http://www.davidmemmott.com/.

His digital art can be viewed at: www.wordcraftoforegon.com/shapeshifter/. Memmott lives in La Grande, Oregon, with his wife, Susan.

"Where the Yellow Brick Road Turns West," was selected as a finalist for the Western Writers of America's Spur Award in the Western poem category. Memmott's poem was published in his collection, Giving It Away, which as published in 2009 by Wordcraft of Oregon. Since 1953 Western Writers of America have presented the Spur Award to the best Western writing. For a list of the 2010 winners and finalists, you can visit their website at:
www.WesternWriters.org.