Educated at North Texas State University (now UNT) in the 1970s, Tony Burnett is an award winning poet and songwriter. His poetry and short fiction have been extensively published in national literary magazines and anthologies including, most recently, Sixfold, Connotation Press, Short Story America, Frontier Tales, Texas Poetry Calendar, Poetry @ Round Top anthology, Tidal Basin Review, Red Dirt Review and Toucan Literary Magazine. He is Editor in Chief of Scribe, the on-line blog of the Writers' League of Texas with over 6000 subscribers and the currently serves as Board President for the Writers' League of Texas. He makes his home in rural central Texas near Temple with his trophy wife, Robin.