MICHAEL H. KEW is an author and poet who first tapped his writerly destiny as a Californian boy in the mid-1980s. His work has since been featured Earthwide in magazines, newspapers, films, websites, advertisements, and books, including January 2012's Crossings, his first collection of world travel essays.  Rainbownesia, his Oceania volume, was published in October 2019. In March 2020 Kew published Nectars of Sky, his premier poetry assemblage, surrealist free-verse based on his two most transformative residencies. April 2021 drew Purpledeneye, an experimental work of formulaic dream poetry; December 2022 birthed travel poesy/photoesy (Incense Gardens). Designing an East Africa travelogue (Swahilia, 2023) and a collection of locally-based short stories (Pineal Forests, 2024), Kew dwells and delves at Purpledeneye in the coastal mountains of southern Oregon.