Author

Peter Roberts

Peter Roberts grew up near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and earned a BS at the University of Pittsburgh. He currently lives in central Ohio. Over the past thirty years or so, he has had poems and stories published in various magazines & online journals, including Asimov's, Star*Line, Nature, Astropoetica, Ars Medica, Redstone Science Fiction, Abyss & Apex, Bitter Oleander, Illumen, Poetry Salzburg Review, The South Carolina Review, Lilliput Review, Caf� Irreal, Poem, Lullaby Hearse, The Wisconsin Review, the William and Mary Review, Small Pond, New York Quarterly, & Confrontation, & in the anthologies Poetic Voices Without Borders & Futures from Nature. He has poems forthcoming in Illumen, & Crow. For a more complete list of publications, and additional personal information: www.god-and-country.info/personal.html

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Assumptions

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