George Wallace is a New York native who has lived and worked across the US and in Europe. A prominent member of the NYC performance scene, he is writer in residence at the Walt Whitman Birthplace, editor of Poetrybay and co-editor of great weather for Media, and in 2015 was named laureate of the International Beat Poetry Festival. He is the author of 30 chapbooks of poetry, including A Simple Blues With A Few Intangibles (Foothills Publications, 2016) and Poppin Johnny (Three Rooms Press, 2009).