John Cotter’s fiction and poetry have appeared in dozens of national publications including 3rd Bed, Hanging Loose, & Good Foot. As of April 2007, he’s putting the finishing touches on separate collections of stories, poems, and a novel, Under The Small Lights.

Poetry Editor for the review site Open Letters Monthly, John's published critical work on contemporary novelists, poets, and translators.

John was born in Norwich, Connecticut in 1976, home of Benedict Arnold and a fresh crop of casinos. He graduated Emerson’s Creative Writing program on a Performing Arts scholarship and is currently researching his Master’s Thesis for Harvard Extension School on the literary reputation of Anthony Burgess (go out and get yourself a copy of Earthly Powers!).

Write him at john@johncotter.net