John Burroughs is a Cleveland area poet and publisher, acclaimed for his dynamic and engaging performances. He is the author of around a dozen poetry chapbooks and at least one full-length poetry collection, The Eater of the Absurd. For close to a decade around the turn of the millennium, John served as a full-time playwright and occasional music director in residence for the Ministry of Theatre at Marion Correctional Institution, composing operas including King of All Kings. In 2007, his blog was ranked number 1 in several categories on MySpace when he decided to move on to Facebook and his own new website. John got involved in Cleveland’s vibrant live poetry scene in 2008, won the first poetry slam he ever competed in, formed the associations PoetryElyria and Lorain County Poets, served as webmaster for the Ohio Poetry Association, and has contributed irregularly to the O.P.A. and Cleveland Poetics blogs, and co-founded the legendary Lix and Kix Poetry Extravaganza and Snoetry: A Winter Wordfest. Burroughs is perhaps most proud of his work (since 2008) as the founding editor of Crisis Chronicles Press, curating several multimedia anthologies and publishing poetry and fiction titles by many of the world’s finest indie writers.