Paul Brooke

Paul Brooke has five full-length collections of photography and poetry including Light and Matter: Poems and Photographs of Iowa (2008) and Meditations on Egrets: Poems and Photographs of Sanibel Island (2010). Sirens and Seriemas: Photographs and Poems of the Amazon and Pantanal (2015) was published by Brambleby Books of London, England,  while Finishing Line Press published Arm Wrestling at the Iowa State Fair (2018). His latest book, The Skald and the Drukkin Trollaukin, is due out by Gold Wake Press next year (2022).

His writing has been published internationally in Ireland, Germany, New Zealand, and England in The Brobdingdagian Times, Litspeak, Magma, and Takahe, respectively. In the United States, his work has been featured in such journals as the North American Review, Rocky Mountain Review, Flyway, International Poetry Review, Isotope: A Journal of Literary Nature and Science Writing, and the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature and the Environment. 

He was trained as an undergraduate as an ornithologist and later completed his Bachelors and Masters at Iowa State University and his Ph.D. in English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Dr. Brooke is a Professor of English at Grand View University in Des Moines, Iowa, where he teaches Advanced Creative Writing, Introduction to Creative Writing, Creative Photography, Major Authors, and Literary Theory. 

"Bloodroot," "Miter," "Royal Poinciana," and "Red Mangrove" in Plant People, An Anthology of Environmental Artists.