Conversations with the Visible:

George Looney's books include The Visibility of Things Long Submerged, which won the BOA Editions Short Fiction Award, and The Acrobatic Company of the Invisible, which won the Cider Press Review Editors' Prize, Birds of Sympathy: Correspondences (with Douglas Smith), which won the Apogee Poetry Chapbook Award, The Worst May Be Over, which won the Elixir Press Fiction Award, and The Itinerate Circus: New and Selected Poems 1995-2020. He is the founder of the BFA in Creative Writing Program at Penn State Erie, editor of the international literary journal Lake Effect, and he served for many years as the translation editor of Mid-American Review, and he was co-founder of the original Chautauqua Writers' Festival. He is currently Professor Emeritus at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College.