Dan Barth's poetry, fiction, essays and reviews have appeared in a wide range of publications. He is the author of "Fast Women Beautiful: Zen Beat Baseball Poems," "Coyote Haiku" and "Ukiah Haiku: Journal of a Year." He is a contributing editor of "The Redwood Coast Review," an organizer and judge for the annual Ukiah Haiku Festival, and co-director of the monthly Writers Read series in Ukiah, CA. In March of 2012 he was named poet laureate of Ukiah for a two-year term. Dan was born and reared in Louisville, Kentucky. He is a graduate of Duke University. In addition to writing he does freelanc...