Michael Biegner has been published in Blooms, Poetry Storehouse, Silver Birch Press, Silkworm, WordPeace, Pondersavant, Necro Prooductions, and Poets To Come, an anthology in honor of Walt Whitman’s 200th birthday. His prose poem (“When Walt Whitman Was A Little Girl”) was made into a video short by North Carolina filmmaker Jim Haverkamp, where it has competed at various film festivals around the world and is available for viewing on Vimeo. Michael was a finalist in the 2017 Northampton Arts Council Biennial Call To Artists. He was diagnosed with castrate resistant metastatic prostate cancer in October of 2019 and is currently undergoing chemotherapy.