Andrew Hemmert is the author of Sawgrass Sky (Texas Review Press). His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in various magazines including The Cincinnati Review, The Journal, Michigan Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, and The Southern Review. He won the 2018 River Styx International Poetry Contest. He earned his MFA from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and currently serves as a poetry editor for Driftwood Press.

Books by Andrew Hemmert:

Other poems on the web by Andrew Hemmert:
"Father, Son, Ghost"
Two poems
"Glitter Ode"
"Runaway"
"Future Theory"

Andrew Hemmert's Website.

Andrew Hemmert on Twitter.

About Sawgrass Sky:

"In Sawgrass Sky, Andrew Hemmert reveals a Florida that's left out of the guidebooks, a place where mountains rise from refuse-heaps, black bears prowl the suburbs, and the past 'is like an orange grove / abandoned behind broken barbed wire.' Hemmert probes that past in poems dizzy with insights, always reaching for, and finding, the most surprising yet precise images. Though set in the woods and waters of a particular childhood, this thrilling debut is a larger reckoning with the homes we leave and those we make in the world."
—Chelsea Rathburn