Fredrick Zydek is a former teacher at the University of Nebraska and the College of Saint Mary who resides in Omaha. He is the editor of Lone Willow Press and the director of a reading series at Unity Center for Oneness. Zydek has published his poems, plays, fiction, reviews and essays in over 800 magazines and journals, including The Antioch Review, Cimmaron Review, New England Review, Poetry, Prairie Schooner and Poetry Northwest. He has published four collections of his work, most recently Ending The Fast, which won the Sarah Foley O’Laughlen Award and The Conception Abbey Poems.
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