L. Ward Abel's poetry has been published hundreds of times in print and online worldwide, and he is the author of four full collections and eleven chapbooks of poetry. Additionally, Abel is a composer and performer of music (as Max Able, with Abel, Rawls and Hayes, and presently with Abel and Rawls) releasing twelve albums over the past thirty-five years. He is a retired lawyer, and now a teacher of literature, living in his native Georgia.