John Rowe's poetry has appeared in Bay Area Poets Seasonal Review, Brevities, GRRRRR-- A Collection of Poems About Bears (Arctos Press), Minotaur, Poetry Depth Quarterly, Remembering (anthology of Poets' Dinner contest winners), and elsewhere. He won a grand prize in the Dancing Poetry Festival Contest 2002 and was also a prizewinner in the 2003 festival. He was featured in November 2003 on KRBS radio's "Poetry On Request" (Oroville, CA). An East Bay native, he has served since 1998 as president of the Bay Area Poets Coalition and associate editor of Poetalk magazine.