Don Stinson

Don Stinson divided his childhood and adolescence between Southern California and western Arkansas. He moved to Oklahoma at 17 and later earned a B. A. and an M. A. from Northeastern State University in Tahlequah and a Ph.D. in Poetry Writing and Contemporary Literature from Oklahoma State University. He has taught at NSU, OSU, and Ridgewater College in Minnesota, but has now spent over 20 years at Northern Oklahoma College, where he teaches writing and literature courses and helps organize the annual Chikaskia Literary Festival every fall. He has written short fiction and one-act plays in the past, but has concentrated on poetry more recently and has published his work in numerous literary journals since the late 1980s. "Flatline Horizon" is his first book, though he is currently working on his second. He and his wife Pamela--parents of three grown children--have traveled to all 50 states and over two dozen foreign countries, but spend much of their time at home in Tonkawa, Oklahoma.