Henry Howard has been a Los Angeles peace and justice poet since the earliest days of the online literary anti-war protest, Poets Against the War, started by publisher and poet Sam Hamill, in February, 2003. Much of his writing, from poetry to articles and a historical novel-in- progress, is linked by themes of human rights and social justice—just like his life. In 2016, his first collection, Sing to Me of My Rights, published by VAGABOND, was honored with the silver medal in the Living Now Book Awards, Evergreen Medal for World Peace.