Rodney Wittwer lives in W. Medford, MA. After receiving his M.A. from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, he spent 16 years in the transportation logistics industry, where he was Director of Operations for the Hub Group-Boston. Since then, he has split his time between writing and assisting his wife, Deborah Parker, who is a clothing designer. His poems have appeared in journals such as The Antioch Review, Barrow Street, Cimarron Review, DIAGRAM, Hayden's Ferry Review, The Literary Review, Memorious, Pebble Lake Review, Pleiades and Ploughshares. The poems here are from a manuscript entitled Gone & Gone, which was a semi-finalist/finalist many times on the book contest circuit. It was recently accepted for publication and is forthcoming from Red Hen Press.