Jon Ballard is a poet as well as an occasional literature instructor for Oakland Community College in Royal Oak, Michigan. Currently he lives in Mexico City, Mexico. His poems have previously appeared in Soundings East, Riverrun,The Old Red Kimono, SP Quill, The MacGuffin,The Dande Review, Boxcar Poetry Review, Poetry Midwest, and The Centrifugal Eye. His work is forthcoming in The Rock Salt Plum Review, Subtletea, and The Valparaiso Poetry Review. His first chapbook, Lonesome, from Pudding House Publications, is due out this year.
