ally Swist’s books include Huang Po and the Dimensions of Love (Southern Illinois University Press, 2012); The Daodejing: A New Interpretation, with David Breeden and Steven Schroeder (Lamar University Literary Press, 2015); and the winner of the 2018 Ex Ophidia Press Poetry Prize for his book, A Bird Who Seems to Know Me: Poems Regarding Birds & Nature.

   His forthcoming books include The Map of Eternity (Shanti Arts, LLC, 2018), Singing for Nothing: Selected Nonfiction as Literary Memoir (The Operating System, 2018), and On Beauty: Essays, Reviews, Fiction, and Plays (Adelaide Books, 2018).

     His poems and prose have appeared in Adelaide Literary Journal; The American Book Review; Appalachia Journal; Arts: The Arts in Theological and Religious Studies; Chiron Review, Crab Orchard Review; The Galway Review (Ireland); North American Review; Still Point Arts Quarterly; and Transference: A Literary Journal Featuring the Art and Process of Translation.