Lonnie Hodge, MFA, PhD, is a poet, playwright, professor, cultural consultant in Asia and a freelance writer. Born in Pueblo, Colorado, his works have appeared in hundreds of regional and international publications since 1960, including Appalachia, The Bridge, Eleventh Muse, Kansas Quarterly, as well as over two dozen anthologies. He is a past recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry. He is currently a Visiting Professor in China and a consultant on Chinese cultural issues for International business concerns. He is fluent in several Asian languages and lectures on Asian literature. He is a graduate of Vermont College, UCCS, among others.
He is the author of Expats Syndrome (Xiao Huo Press, 2005), Unrisen Son (Sandstone Press, 2000), Fishing for the Moon (Sandstone Press, 1994), In the Shadow of the Peaks (Crossroad Publishing, 1985), and Shadow of the Peaks (Crossroad Publishing, 1985).