John Riley lives in North Carolina with his terrible jerk of a dog named Louie. He's published poetry, fiction, and reviews in Smokelong Quarterly, Eclectica, Banyan Review, Litro, and dozens of other journals and anthologies. EXOT Books will publish a volume of 100 of his 100-word prose poems in the fall of 2022. He has also published over forty books of nonfiction for young adults.
