Gary Fincke’s latest collection of poems is Standing Around the Heart (Arkansas, 2005). His fourth collection of stories, Sorry I Worried You (Georgia, 2004) won the 2003 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction; Amp’d (Michigan State) his nonfiction account of his son’s rock and roll life in two signed bands, was published in 2004. His poems appear in Smartish Pace, Issues 5, 8, 10 and 13. [bio updated 2006]