Gerald Locklin has taught English since 1965 at California State 
			University, Long Beach and is the author of over 125 books and 
			chapbooks or poetry, fiction, and criticism, with over 3000 poems, 
			stories, articles, reviews, and interviews published in periodicals.
			His full-length books from Water Row Press include	Candy Bars: 
			Selected Stories; The Life Force Poems; Go West, Young Toad: 
			Selected Writings; The Pocket Book: A Novella and Nineteen Short 
			Fictions; and Charles Bukowski: A Sure Bet. An Italian edition of 
			his novel Down and Out (Event Horizon Press) has recently been 
			published by Leconte Publishersin Rome as Piu Morto che Vivo, and 
			other titles from EH include The Firebird Poems; Three Mid-Century 
			Tales; Hemingway Colloquium: The Poet Goes to Cuba; and The First 
			Time He Saw Paris (in Two Novellas, with Donna Hilbert). A series 
			of dos-a-dos jazz chapbooks, with Mark Weber, are available from 
			Zerx Press (Albuquerque, NM). His writings are archived and indexed 
			by the Special Collections of the CSULB library. Many early and rare 
			works are available from Water Row Books, amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com.
			He is listed in the usual literary directories. He publishes regularly 
			in 5 AM, Ambit (London), Tears in the Fence (Dorset), Poetry 
			International, New York Quarterly, Nerve Cowboy, Slipstream, Freefall, 
			Coagula Art Journal, and many other periodicals. He is available for 
			readings, workshops, festivals, residencies (fees negotiable).