Jay Brecker walks and writes in southern California. His poems have or will appear in Cider Press Review, The MacGuffin, Radar Poetry, Folio, Kestrel, Poor Yorick, Sonora Review, Rattle Poets Respond, The Shore, Permafrost, Lily Poetry, Ocean State Review, and RHINO. His manuscript, blue collar eclogue, received the 2024 Marsh Hawk Press Rochelle Ratner Prize.