Steven Pelcman is an American writer of poetry and short stories and novels who has been published in a number of magazines including: The Windsor Review, The Innisfree Poetry Journal, Fourth River magazine, River Oak Review, Poetry Salzburg Review, The Tulane Review, The Baltimore Review, The Warwick Review, The Greensboro Review, etc. He was nominated for the 2012 Pushcart Prize for individual poems and his volume of poetry, like water to STONE, Adelaide Books was nominated for the 2017 Pushcart prize. In addition, he has published poetry books: American Voices, Outlaws Publishing 2017 and Where the Leaves Darken, 2018 Adelaide Books. Steven has spent the last twenty years residing in Germany where he teaches in academia and is a language communications trainer and consultant. "Capturing the voices of humor or pain, making the small moments epic and witnessing the trials and tribulations of the human experience which captures the heart and mind is what drives the work."