Errol Hess is a founding editor of Sow's Ear Poetry Review and a prolific writer of short stories, poetry, and essays. Publication credits include National Public Radio's All Things Considered and Madison Review, along with several smaller journals. Errol has won the Sherwood Anderson Short Story Contest and the Highlands Festival Contest, while his children's story, "Joey Learns to Fly," was made into an award-winning animated film. Errol is now retired and living on a thirty-six acre tract full of beavers, foxes, raccoons, mink, muskrat, turtles, sweetgum, and oak. He recently completed buil...