Cal Freeman’s writing has appeared in Commonweal, The Cortland Review, The Journal, Passages North, Hippocampus and elsewhere. The recipient of the Howard P. Walsh Award for Literature, The Ariel Poetry Prize, and The Devine Poetry Fellowship, Cal has also been nominated for Pushcart Prizes in poetry and creative nonfiction, as well as Best of the Net and Best American Poetry. He is the author of the collections Brother of Leaving (Marick Press) and Fight Songs (Eyewear Publishing), and the chapbook Heard Among the Windbreak (Eyewear Publishing).