Randy Bynum’s work appears or is forthcoming in Cirque (contest winner), Arboreal Literary Magazine, Metonym Journal, Atticus Review, New Plains Review, and others. He explores people, places, issues of social inequity (his mother was ½ Native American/Cherokee who hid it until late in life). His publication-ready collections include Tulips Talking Behind My Back and a four-volume set of magical realism poems for older children/adults entitled Dragons Who Type: Poems of Whimsy and Wishes. He’s an award-winning playwright (“The Convert”, Kennedy Center/ACTF, Region IX). He lives in Portland, OR with wife Dani and rescue dog Coop of the Dump.