Maurice Oliver

After almost a decade of working as a freelance photographer in Europe, Maurice Oliver returned to America in 1990 to work for the Los Angeles Times. In 1995, he made a lifelong dream reality by traveling around the world for eight months. But instead of taking pictures, he used the same creative energy to record the experience in a journal, which eventually became dozens of poems. His poetry has appeared in or is forthcoming in The Potomac Journal, Circle Magazine, Tryst3 Journal, Eye-Shot, FRiGG, and Red China. He currently resides in Portland, Oregon, where he works as a private tutor.