Ron Houchin is a retired public school teacher who has eight books of poetry, one of short stories published, and a horror novel, The Devil’s Trill, which came out from Main Street Rag press in April of 2017. His work has been awarded an Appalachian Book-of-the-Year award for poetry and the Weatherford Award for poetry. His new volume, Planet of the Best Love Songs came out from Salmon Poetry of Ireland in February, 2017. He lives on the banks of the Ohio River across from his hometown Huntington, WV.