Makela, Bob

BOB MAKELA has been writing professionally for nearly three decades. He's been paid to write magazine articles, screenplays, sitcom scripts, internet shows, newspaper columns, blog posts and a book about barhopping around the U.S. for 100 days in his VW bus. In 2006 he published his first book, Poetry For People Who Don't Read Poetry. In 2012 he published Barstool Poetry (The Early Years: 1992-2000). His next anthology of poems, Barstool Poetry (The Best of Austin: 2013), will be published in December. He's currently writing a book about his 500-mile walk across Spain in 2013. He might also be...