George Looney's books include the recently-released ODE TO THE EARTH IN TRANSLATION (Red Mountain Press, 2021), THE WORST MAY BE OVER (Elixir Press, 2020), which won the Elixir Press Fiction Award, THE ITINERATE CIRCUS: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS 1995-2020 (Red Mountain Press, 2020), the Red Mountain Press Poetry Award-winning WHAT LIGHT BECOMES: THE TURNER VARIATIONS (Red Mountain Press, 2019), and the novel Report from a Place of Burning (Leapfrog Press, 2018) which was co-winner of The Leapfrog Press Fiction Award. He is the founder of the BFA in Creative Writing Program at Penn State Erie, editor-in- chief of the international literary journal Lake Effect, translation editor of Mid-American Review, and co- founder of the original Chautauqua Writers' Festival.
