Vincent J. Tomeo is a poet, archivist, historian, and community activist. To date, he has published 1,013 poems and essays in publications including the New York Times, Evening Street Review, the Comstock Review, the Mid-America Poetry Review, Spires, the Tiger’s Eye, ByLine, Mudfish, the Blind Man’s Rainbow, the Neovictorian/Cochlea, and Grandmother Earth (Life Press, 2003-2008). Vincent is the author of My Cemetery Friends: A Garden of Encounters at Mount Saint Mary in Queens, New York (Atmosphere Press, 2020) and a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee.