Douglas Cole has published four poetry collections: Interstate (Night Ballet Press); Western Dream (Finishing Line Press); The Dice Throwers (Liquid Light Press); Bali Poems (WordTech Press), as well as a novella, Ghost (Blue Cubicle Press). His work has been anthologized in Best New Writing (Hopewell Publications), Bully Anthology (Kentucky Stories Press) and Coming Off The Line (Mainstreet Rag Publishing). His work also appears or is forthcoming in journals such as The Chicago Quarterly Review,  Eastern Iowa Review, Off the Coast, Owen Wister Review, The Galway Review, Slipstream, Red Rock Review, Wisconsin Review, Two Thirds North, San Pedro River Review, Badlands, Common Ground Review, The Ocean State Review, The Raven Chronicles, Solstice, and Midwest Quarterly. More is available online in The Adirondack Review, Ithaca Lit, Talking Writing, Salt River Review, and Avatar Review, as well as recorded stories in Bound Off and The Baltimore Review. He has been nominated for a Pushcart in both poetry and fiction and for a Best of the Net Award, and received the Leslie Hunt Memorial Prize in Poetry; the Best of Poetry Award from Clapboard House; as well as First Prize in the “Picture Worth 500 Words” from Tattoo Highway.