Brendan Constantine
Brendan Constantine was born in 1967 and raised in Los Angeles. His collection, Letters To Guns, was released in February 2009 from Red Hen Press. And his work has appeared in numerous journals, most notably Ploughshares, The Los Angeles Review, The Cortland Review, RUNES, and LA Times Bestseller The Underground Guide to Los Angeles. New work can be found in the Spring editions of Ninth Letter and The Boxcar Poetry Review, as well as the anthology Bright Wings, forthcoming from Columbia University Press and edited by Billy Collins.
Mr. Constantine is currently poet in residence at the Windward School in West Los Angeles and the Idyllwild Arts Summer Youth Writing Program in Idyllwild, California. He holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and is an ardent supporter of Southern California’s poetry communities and one of its most recognized poets.