Bio

A Washington-based author, poet, educator, and Pushcart Nominee, Sterling Warner's works have appeared in such literary magazines, journals, and anthologies as the Anti-Heroin Chic, The Fib Review, and Sparks Of Calliope. Warner's volumes of poetry include Rags and Feathers, Without Wheels, Shadowcat, Edges, Memento Mori, Serpent's Tooth, Flytraps: Poems, "Cracks Of Light: Pandemic Poetry & Fiction, Halcyon Days: Collected Fibonacci (2023) and Abraxas: Poems (2024)-as well as Masques: Flash Fiction & Short Stories. He currently writes, hosts "virtual" poetry/fiction readings, and enjoys fishing and boating along the Hood Canal.

Privilege nurtures perspective
pain feeds poetic
souls craving
outlets
that
rouse

guide
and
inspire
creative
self-expression like
captains who navigate tight ships.