Douglas Cole lives like a ghost on the Lower East Side, drifting almost invisible from one flop to the next. But like the character in Hunger, when he finds a pencil he writes! He has recently had work in The Connecticut River Review, Louisiana Literature, Cumberland Poetry Review, and Midwest Quarterly. He also won the Leslie Hunt Memorial Prize in Poetry, judged by T.R. Hummer, for a selection called "The Open Ward", a chapter from a full-length as yet unpublished manuscript.