Robert Pesich is the editor and publisher of Swan Scythe Press, originally founded by poet Sandra McPherson. Robert resides near San José, California with his partner and their two sons. He works at Palo Alto Veterans Institute for Research and at Stanford University in the Department of Infectious Diseases. He is also president of Poetry Center San José and coordinator for The Well-RED Reading Series. His work has recently appeared in 7x7, Slipstream, The Bitter Oleander, Apercu Quarterly, Skidrow Penthouse, Red Wheelbarrow Literary Magazine, Sand Hill Review, and Sleet Magazine among others. He’s the recipient of the Littoral Press Poetry Prize and fellowships from Silicon Valley Community Foundation and Silicon Valley Creates (formerly known as Arts Council Silicon Valley). In 2001, Dragonfly Press published his chapbook Burned Kilim. His book Model Organism was published by Five Oaks Press (2017).