Wise won the H. Palmer Hall Award for his collection of short stories, Night Train, Cold Beer published by Pecan Grove Press in 2013. Some work, (both welded steel and writing) can be seen at www.wisesculpture.com His FB author's page is https://www.facebook.com/RenoPeteStCyr And his Amazon author's page is http://www.amazon.com/Guinotte-Wise/e... Tweet him @NoirBut. He's won some other literary awards and his words have been allowed into 60+ reviews, anthologies and journals, including Best New Writing 2015. His novel, Ruined Days, was released in Dec., 2015 by Black Opal Books. Resume Speed, a collection of short stories is coming in June, 2016, also from Black Opal Books, publisher. A second thriller, L.A. Hardscape, is in progress scheduled for late 2017. A poetry collection, "Scattered Cranes," is to be published early 2017. GW's MFA was self-awarded. In dusty rodeo arenas, on mean streets and gravel roads, working on steel high above Lake Texoma and Duluth, Minnesota. Driving the deceased around in black hearses. Tending bar. Oh, he did get some higher education, about six years worth, at U. of Arkansas, Westminster, and KC Art Institute, just not any initials to make his resume sparkle. Come to think of it, in his working life, he didn't use a resume. People hired him because he was good, fast, cheap and kind to animals. Toward the end, he wasn't quite as cheap. He worked in KC, Omaha, Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, Los Angeles, then back to KC. Advertising. Most of it as a creative director on cars, hotels, chain saws, lawnmowers, beer, banks, tourism, construction equipment, motorcycles, fashion, music, more. Turns out, it was all material. To prepare him for this marvelous writer's life he took up a couple years ago. And he's a sculptor, as well. Welded steel. See that at www.wisesculpture.com if you wish.