A native of East Tennessee, Verless Doran now lives and writes in New York with his wife and 2 daughters. His prose and poetry has been published in The Smoking Poet, Dogzplot Literary Journal, Riverbabble Review, The Thirteenth Warrior Review, and many others, as well as the anthologies “Heroin Love Songs” and “The Better Bombshell.” He is the author of the short story collection “The Tinker of Canaan” and “Some Dark Holler, the Appalachian Poems,” available from Sugar Hollow Press.