Peter Makuck is the author of five volumes of poetry, including the forthcoming Mandatory Evacuation (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2016) and Long Lens: New and Selected Poems (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2010), which won the 2011 Brockman-Campbell Book Award. He is the author of three collections of short stories, including Allegiance and Betrayal (Syracuse University Press, 2013). His essays, reviews, poems, and stories have appeared in The Hudson Review, North American Review, Southern Poetry Review, and The Sewanee Review. He is the founder of Tar River Poetry and a distinguished professor emeritus at East Carolina University.  

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