George Looney

George Looney is the author of fourteen books of poetry and prose, including his newest book of poetry Ode to the Earth in Translation, the recent Elixir Press Fiction Award-winning story collection The Worst May Be Over, and The Itinerate Circus: New and Selected Poems 1995- 2020. He is the founder of the BFA in Creative Writing Program at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, editor of the international literary journal Lake Effect, translation editor of Mid-American Review, and co-founder of the original Chautauqua Writers’ Festival.

The Influence of Water" and "Nothing, Today, Is the Same" in Wildlife of the Underworld