Ron Riekki is the author of U.P.: a novel and Posttraumatic: A Memoir. He edited five anthologies: The Way North (Michigan Notable Book), Here (Independent Publisher Book Award), And Here, Undocumented, and The Many Lives of The Evil Dead. He's published his writing in The Threepenny Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Wigleaf, Spillway, Poetry Northwest, and many other literary journals. Riekki is Saami-American, Karelian-American, and Finnish-American. If he ever got a tattoo, it'd say Sisu. His home is the north. The far north. No, farther than that.
