Tom Lombardo is the editor of this anthology. He earned a B.S. from Carnegie-Mellon University, an M.S. from Ohio University, and an M.F.A. from Queens University of Charlotte. His poems have appeared in many journals in the U.S., the U.K., Canada, and India, including Southern Poetry Review, Subtropics, Ambit, Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, New York Quarterly, Kritya: A Journal for Our Time, Orbis, Salamander, Ars Medica, Pearl, Asheville Poetry Review, and others. His criticism has been published in New Letters, North Carolina Literary Review, and South Carolina Review. His essays and other nonfiction have appeared in Chrysalis Reader, IEEE Spectrum, Leisure magazine, and other publications. His nonfiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He has taught courses in Aesthetics and in Creative Writing at the Atlanta College of Art. He was the founding editor-in-chief of WebMD, the world’s most widely used health web site, and he lives in Midtown Atlanta, where he works as a freelance medical editor.
After Shocks: The Poetry of Recovery
for Life-Shattering Events
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Photo Credit: Lucia Lombardo
