John Grochalski

BIO: John Grochalski’s poems have appeared in Avenue, The Lilliput Review, The New Yinzer, The Blue Collar Review, The Deep Cleveland Junkmail Oracle, The ARTvoice, Modern Drunkard Magazine, The American Dissident, Words-Myth, My Favorite Bullet, The Main Street Rag, Thieves Jargon, Underground Voices, Why Vandalism, Eclectica, Zygote In My Coffee, Gloom Cupboard, the Kennesaw Review, Re)Verb, Octopus Beak Inc., Clockwise Cat, The Smoking Poet, Ink, Sweat, and Tears, and Cherry Bleeds. His fiction has appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pequin, and will be forthcoming in the anthology Living Room Handjob. Grochalski’s column The Lost Yinzer appears quarterly in The New Yinzer (www.newyinzer.com), and his book of poems The Noose Doesn’t Get Any Looser After You Punch Out is coming out via Six Gallery Press in 2008. Grochalski currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, and is a librarian at the Brooklyn Public Library.