Elegy/Elk River

Michael Schmeltzer was born and raised in Japan before moving to the United States. He earned an MFA from the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University. His honors include numerous Pushcart Prize nominations, the Gulf Stream Award for Poetry, and the Blue Earth Review’s Flash Fiction Prize. He has been a finalist for the Four Way Books Intro and Levis Prizes, Zone 3 Press First Book Prize, as well as the OSU Press/The Journal Award in Poetry. He helps edit A River & Sound Review and has been published inPANK, Rattle, Natural Bridge, and Mid-American Review, among others. He lives in Tacoma. He is now the President of Floating Bridge Press.