John Rock grew up on the shores of Lake Michigan between Milwaukee and Chicago. He attended the University of Wisconsin and San Francisco Art Institute for Film, Anthropology and Literature and spend many years in San Francisco making experimental films and on the shores of Lake Superior living in a wall tent working on poetry. He is the author of the futuristic novella RETURNING TO THE WAVES and the novels REPORT THE EARTH, THE NIGHT FLYING COLLECTIVE and TO THE WELL OF EARTH. johnrockpoetry@gmail.com