Paul Hostovsky's poems appear in the Carolina Quarterly, Shenandoah, New Delta Review, Atlanta Review, Poet Lore, Poetry East, Hellas, Free Lunch, and other journals. He has been featured on Verse Daily, and The Writer's Almanac, and he has won the Comstock Review's Muriel Craft Bailey Award for 2001 and the White Pelican Review's Hollingsworth Prize in 2005. He has two previous collections, Sonnets from South Mountain (2001) and Bird in the Hand (2006), which won the Grayson Books poetry chapbook competition. He works in Boston as a staff interpreter at the Massachusetts Commission for the Deaf, where he specializes in working with the deaf-blind. He lives with his two children in Medfield, Massachusetts.

Other poems by Paul Hostovsky in Verse Daily:
February 14, 2007:   "Love Poem" "I love this poem...."
July 15, 2006:   "Picture of a House" " There are several V's in my daughter's drawing...."