Steve De France is a widely published poet, playwright and essayist both in

America and in Great Britain. His work has appeared in literary

publications in America, England, Canada, France, Ireland, Wales,

Scotland, India, Australia, and New Zealand. He has been nominated for a

Pushcart Prize in Poetry in both 2002, 2003 & 2006. Recently, his

work has appeared in The Wallace Stevens Journal, The Mid-American

Poetry Review, Ambit, Atlantic, Clean Sheets, Poetry Bay, The Yellow

Medicine Review and The Sun. In England he won a Reader’s Award in Orbis

Magazine for his poem “Hawks.” In the United States he won the Josh

Samuels’ Annual Poetry Competition (2003) for his poem: “The Man Who

Loved Mermaids.” His play THE KILLER had it’s world premier at the

GARAGE THEATER in Long Beach, California (Sept-October 2006). He has

received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Chapman University for his

writing. Most recently his poem “Gregor’s Wings” has been nominated

for The Best of The Net by Poetic Diversity.