About the Author

John Guzlowski’s writings appear in Rattle, Ontario Review, North American Review, and other journals here and abroad.

His poems and personal essays about his parents’ experiences as slave laborers in Nazi Germany appear in his memoir Echoes of Tattered Tongues. He is also the author of the Hank and Marvin mystery novels and a columnist for the Dziennik Zwiazkowy, the oldest Polish newspaper in America. His most recent books of poems are Small Talk, Mad Monk Ikkyu and True Confessions.

He has also recently published a novel about two German lovers separated by war entitled Retreat: A Love Story.

Scenery by Iza Blanka