Alma Lolloon

Joe Linker has published three novels, ＂Penina’s Letters,＂ ＂Coconut Oil,＂ and ＂Alma Lolloon,＂ and a children’s book, ＂Scamble and Cramble: Two Hep Cats and Other Tall Tales.＂ A fourth book, ＂Saltwort,＂ is a collection of poetical writings. Shorter works have appeared in Berfrois, Queen Mobs Tea House, The Christian Science Monitor, The Oregonian, Glasgow Review of Books, Rocinante, The Sultan’s Seal, VerseType, Miriam’s Well, Silent Quicksand, and online at The Coming of the Toads. Joe attended El Camino College and California State University at Dominguez Hills, earning a BA in English, with a minor in 20th Century Thought and Expression, and an MA in English, while putting in six years in the Army California National Guard (wheeled & track vehicle mechanic, 140th Engineers, Manhattan Beach). Two decades of adjunct work (St Clements School, CSUDH, Portland Community College, Clark College, Concord Career College, Warner Pacific College) bookend 25 years in what Han-shan called the ＂red dust＂ of business (Chartered Property & Casualty Underwriter with Farmers Group). Joe was a Hawthorne Fellow at the Attic Institute of Arts and Letters from April to August, 2012.