Bio

An author, poet, educator, wordlover, Sterling Warner's works have appeared in dozens of literary magazines, journals, and anthologies such as In the Grove, The Flatbush Review, Leaf by Leaf, Street Lit: Representing the Urban Landscape, American Mustard, the Atherton Review, The Chaffey Review, The Literary Yard, and Metamorphoses. In addition to fiction and nonfiction, Warner's has written five volumes of poetry: Rags and Feathers, Without Wheels, ShadowCat, Edges, and Memento Mori. Currently, he lives in Union, WA and is working on a collection of flash fiction.

Let's
make
torches
from dry wood
before walking through
Capitola's gaping storm drain
to New Brighton Beach."
lite them then
boldly
tread
through
seek
our
Holy
Grail amid
spider webs, soggy
trash, fetid water, bustling rats
move epically as
the flambeau
flickers.

quest
reached