Ed Coletti is a poet, painter, fiction writer, and chess player who graduated from Georgetown University and then, following a year in Vietnam, studied under Robert Creeley in San Francisco (1970-71). Over his many years, Ed has published in journals all over the world. His book, When Hearts Outlive Minds, was released June 2011. Germs, Viruses, and Catechisms was published by Civil Defense Publications (San Francisco) during Winter 2013. The Problem With Breathing from Edwin E. Smith Publications (Little Rock) was published during June 2015.

Apollo Blue’s Harp, a poetic-history of music also will be published by Edwin E. Smith Publications (Little Rock) during 2016.

Ed previously ran both the SoCoCo and Poetry Azul Reading Series in Santa Rosa, Calirfornia. Internet presence includes the popular ten-year-old blog “No Money In Poetry.”

In his “spare time,” Ed has been publisher of the on and off again Round Barn Press. He currently is working on an epic poem about and around Edward Snowden.