Because I Can't Whistle

Steves work has appeared in

literary publications in America,

England, Canada, France, Ireland,

Wales, Scotland, India Australia,

and New Zealand. He has been

nominated for a Pushcart Prize

in Poetry in 2002, 2003 & 2006.

Recently, his work has appeared in

The Wallace Stevens Journal, The

Mid-American Poetry Review, The

Evergreen Review Ambit, Atlantic, Orbis, Poetry Bay, The

Yellow Medicine Review & The Sun. In England he won a

Readers Award in Orbis Magazine for his poem Hawks. In

the United States he won the Josh Samuels Annual Poetry

Competition (2003) for his poem: The Man Who Loved

Mermaids. His play THE KILLER had its world premiere

at the GARAGE THEATER in Long Beach, California (Sept-

October 2006). He received the Distinguished Alumnus

Award from Chapman University for his writing. Most

recently his poem Gregors Wings was nominated for The

Best of The Net by Poetic Diversity.