David Mehler lives in Newberg, Oregon, moving there with wife and kids in the late 1990s, to take over ownership of Oregon's longest running independent coffeehouse. He is the editor of the literary journal, TRIGGERFISH CRITICAL REVIEW. His chapbook, GOD TRUCK NATURE appeared in the chapbook anthology, BURNING GORGEOUS: SEVEN 21st CENTURY POETS, edited by Pamela O'Shaughnessy (2010). He began serving on the board of the Oregon Poetry Association in the fall of 2019. He is currently at work revising a manuscript of prose poems pertaining to his job as a truck driver for a landfill not far from Portland.
