Dennis Maulsby is a retired bank president living in Ames, Iowa, with his wife Ruth, a retired legal secretary, and his dog Charlie, a retired CIA operative. A son and grandson, Matt and Kaden, live in the Pacific Northwest. His poetry and short stories have appeared in numerous journals, including Star*Line, The North American Review, Haiku Journal, Spillway, The Hawai’i Pacific Review, The Briarcliff Review (Pushcart Prize nomination), and on National Public Radio’s Themes & Variations.

His traditionally published books include Near Death/Near Life (Military Writers Society of America (MWSA gold medal winner), Free Fire Zone (MWSA silver medal winner), Winterset (Eric Hoffer Award and Global eBook gold medal winner), Heart Songs (American Fiction Awards first place and MWSA gold medal), and House de Gracie (Reader Views and Global eBook silver medals). Maulsby holds memberships in the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association, the MWSA, and is a past president of the Iowa Poetry Association. A number of his poems have been individually published in online and print journals in Sweden, Switzerland, China, India, the United Kingdom, and Russia. Website: www.dennismaulsby.com.