Steve McDonald is the author of one book of poetry, House of Mirrors, and two chapbooks, Where There Was No Pattern and Golden Fish / Dark Pond, winner of the Comstock Review 2014 Chapbook Contest. His second book of poetry, Credo, a finalist in the Brick Road Poetry Press contest, will be published in 2018. He has won awards for individual poems from Tiferet, Nimrod, and Beyond Baroque. His poetry has appeared in Best New Poets 2010, The Atlanta Review, RATTLE, The Crab Creek Review, The Paterson Literary Review, Spillway, Blue Unicorn, The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, The Cresset, and other journals. He can be reached at stevemcdonaldpoety.com