Bio

Tyson West lives in Eastern Washington in smoke and dust on the bottom of an Ice Age flood plain. He enjoys reciting his poetry to magpies and coyotes.

He has published poetry and speculative fiction in various genres in "Fast Forward Festival", Voluted Tales, and in anthologies "Warlords of the Asteroid Belt", and "You Can't Kill Me I'm Already Dead". He has had two poems nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His poetry collection "Home-Canned Forbidden Fruit" is available from Gribble Press, http://www.greymaredit.com/. His novella "Mall of the Damned" was published in 2014 by Red Dashboard Publishing, LLC.

that year the storms abandoned us
tree rings grew tighter
fire and ash
bonded
with
dust
when
rains
returned
fields ablaze
in wild flower waves
cradle memories of fire fear