A graduate of the University of Southern Maine's Stonecoast MFA Poetry Program, David Sloan teaches at Maine Coast Waldorf High School in Freeport. His debut poetry collection—THE IRRESISTIBLE IN- BETWEEN—was published by Deerbrook Editions in 2013. His poetry has appeared in The Cafe Review, Chiron Review, Innisfree, Lascaux Review, Naugatuck River Review, New Millenium Writings, Passager, among others. He received the 2012 Betsy Sholl Award, MWPA Maine Literary Awards short works poetry category in 2012 and 2016, The Margaret F. Tripp Poetry Award, the Goodreads Poetry Contest a third time in July, 2015, Maine Poets Society inaugural award 2018, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His latest book is A RISING & OTHER POEMS (Deerbrook Editions, 2020).