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Bio: Sam Calhoun is a poet, geoscientist, and nature photographer. He is the author of eight chapbooks, and has been nominated for Pushcart and Best of the Net awards. His poetry and photography can be found in numerous journals and anthologies, including Frogpond, Paddler Press, Dishsoap Quarterly, and GRIT magazine. He is the editor-in-chief for the Tanasi River Review, and lives with his wife in Elkmont, Alabama.

Artist Statement: I view language and words as I do nature, places to play in, places to explore. The way words roll across a page or off a tongue is as important as water moving over rock. I have a great connection to the natural world, as writer and photographer. The immediate experiences of my travels and minutiae of encounters inform my writing, being both recorder and storyteller. I do not believe in the concept of the mundane, the ordinary. Everything has it's own spark of magic. As a poet I work to sculpt awareness of this magic around me in ink, to inflect sound to the soundless, to ask questions, and answer them, if possible. I believe the poem is the pathway to the center of the self, to that which we hold most authentic, rooted, and close. That which we wish to share, inspire, and invite others in to explore and play.