Pickering, Dustin

Dustin D. Pickering is owner of the small independent publishing company Transcendent Zero Press. In three years, he has found himself hosting open mics at two venues. He began as "just another reader" at local venues, and has since been a Special Guest Poet at Austin International Poetry Festival in 2013, was published in their anthology di-verse-city in that year, and has been nominated for a National Poetry Award for Harbinger Asylum as best magazine of the year--2013. He is a schizophrenic who lost a decade of his life to mental illness and its struggles, but has manages to rebound from it...