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LIT BIO John C. Mannone has literary and speculative work appearing in North Dakota Quarterly, Le Menteur, Blue Fifth Review, Poetry South, New England Journal of Medicine, Baltimore Review, as well as Pedestal, Eye to the Telescope, Space & Time Magazine, and many others. Recipient of the Horror Writers Association Scholarship (2017), he won the Dwarf Stars Award (2020). He also won the Impressions of Appalachia Creative Arts Contest (2020) in poetry, the Carol Oen Memorial Fiction Award (2020), and the Joy Margrave Award in creative nonfiction (2015, 2017). He was awarded a Jean Ritchie Fellowship (2017) in Appalachian literature and served as celebrity judge for the National Federation of State Poetry Societies (2018) and chosen as guest speaker and Best of the Best contest judge for Poetry Society Tennessee (2020). He has three poetry chapbooks, including Apocalypse (Alban Lake Publishing, 2015), which placed third for the 2017 Elgin Book Award, and four full-length collections: Disabled Monsters (Linnet’s Wings Press, 2015), Flux Lines: The Intersection of Science, Love, and Poetry (Linnet’s Wings Press, 2021), Sacred Flute Iris Press, 2022), and Song of the Mountains (Middle Creek Publishing, forthcoming 2023). He’s been nominated for Pushcart, Rhysling, and Best of the Net awards. He edits poetry for Abyss & Apex, Silver Blade, Liquid Imagination, and American Diversity Report. A retired professor of physics, he lives in Knoxville, Tennessee. ~~~ Read his July 2020 interview by the editor of Tales From the Moonlit Path, Terrie Leigh Relf, in her “A Day in the Life Interview Series”: https://tlrelf.wordpress.com/a-day-in-the-life-interview-series/a-day-in-the-life-presents-poet-fiction-author-and-essayist-john-c-mannone/ Visit him at http://jcmannone.wordpress.com and https://www.facebook.com/jcmannone/ He has served 3 terms as CWG president [2016 -2019] ~~~ ACADEMIC John C. Mannone achieved a PhD Candidacy in Electrical Engineering with a dissertation on expanded space charge theory in dielectric fluids (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 2002), an MS in Physics specializing in plasma physics (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 1988), an MS in Physical & Theoretical Chemistry specializing in photoelectron spectroscopy (Georgetown University, Washington, DC, 1978), and a BS in Chemistry (Loyola College/University, Baltimore, MD, 1970). His research interests are in astrophysical plasmas and electromagnetic theory. As a research chemist for Martin Marietta in Baltimore, he worked on life detection systems on the Viking missions as well as on accelerated aging of electro explosives used on the Voyager missions. He broadened his career when he joined Westinghouse Naval Reactors Facility in Idaho. This launched his consulting in the nuclear industry in which he helped to solve industry challenges for over thirty years in both commercial nuclear reactors and DOE nuclear projects. Retired in 2010, Mannone remains active in teaching university-level physics and in astronomy outreach, where he is often sought out as a speaker. But he has also developed a passion for the literary arts since 2004, and fuses those arts with science. With over 1000 poems and prose published, he has several collections of poetry and has won numerous literary distinctions. [Update June 25, 2022]