Ed Coletti is a poet, painter, and fiction writer. Recent work has appeared in North American Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Hawai'i Pacific Review, Spillway, Noir Nation, and So It Goes: Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library. His book, When Hearts Outlive Minds, was released June 2011. Germs, Viruses, and Catechisms was published by Civil Defense Publications (San Francisco) during December 2013. He now is working on Apollo Blue's Harp, a poetic-history of music.