NICHOLAS CAMPBELL

Nicholas Campbell is of Slovak and Scottish descent. He was born in Greensburg, Indiana, in 1949, and attended Catholic and public schools in Indiana and California where he later studied verse writing at Los Angeles Valley College with Lawrence Spingarn and at California State University, Northridge, with poets Benjamin Saltman and Ann Stanford, and where, in 1984, he earned a Bachelor's Degree in English Literature. He later attended San Francisco State University where he worked on an M.A. in Creative Writing studying poetry with Stan Rice. After moving from Los Angeles to San Luis Obispo, CA, he attended classes at Cal Poly Technical State University, where he continued his education. He has taught creative writing at the California Men's Colony, for Arts Reach at U.C.L.A., and at public schools throughout California and participated in the summer writing workshops at Cuesta College where he taught verse writing. The first edition of Dandelion Clocks was published by Garden Street Press in 1993 and included many of the poems in this new volume. Campbell now lives in Atascadero, California and is currently at work on a memoir titled, A Short Ride In A Fast Machine.