John McCluskey is a writer and photographer living in Connecticut. John had his first novel, A Moment of Fireflies, published in 2017, and has had poetry, short fiction, and photography published in numerous international literary journals and anthologies over the years, including Cradle Songs: an Anthology of Poems on Motherhood (2013 International Book Award winner and one of 4 finalists for the NIEA). John’s poem “My Gray Child” from Cradle Songs was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, resides in the public and private collection of the Boston Public Library, and was read at a poetry reading in New Mexico by actor/writer Tony Huston. The poem appears in full in John’s poetry book published in 2019, I Will Listen If You Tell Me Who I Am.