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Justin Hyde
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Biography
Early Life and Education
Justin hails from the fair state of Iowa. He was a loner type child that continued to be so into his adult years. He graduated high school by a very thin margin, and then spent his late teens and early twenties attempting to be a professional bicycle racer. He wandered through his mid-twenties reading philosophy and observing life. He attended junior college for one year prior to earning a degree in psychology from the University of Iowa.
Literary Career
Hyde began writing at the age of 27 after a huge depressive state that nearly took his life. He is the author of the chapbook Down Where The Hummingbird Goes To Die published by Outside Writers Press/Tainted Coffee Press. This book was the sole winner of the Jack Micheline Memorial Poetry Contest in 2008. His manuscript was chosen by the late Todd Moore.
Most recently, he won the 2009 Nerve Cowboy Chapbook Contest and his book “Another casualty at the 34th st bus stop” was published by Liquid Paper Press. In 2009, he was the poetry editor for Thieves Jargon for a short time before fading into the underground again. Justin Hyde has been published extensively in print and online in the small press, and is now recognized as a New York Quarterly poet having appeared in Issue 66, 2010.[1]
Select Works
Poetry
- "neighbor to my left", Red Fez Publications Issue #23 (Aug. 2009)
- "spinning significance out of damn near nothing", Zygote in my Coffee Issue #131 (Apr. 2010)
- 12 poems and a questionnaire, Gloom Cupboard (May 2009)
Further Reading
Reviews
- Down Where the Hummingbird Goes to Die by Justin Hyde (Reviewed by Adam Robinson), jmww (Summer 2008)
Interviews
- Justin Hyde interviews himself, Beat the Dust (June 2008)
Notes and References
Background information contributed by Aleathia Drehmer
