Kevin Arnold is a poet, teacher, and fiction writer from the San Francisco Bay Area, California. He has published in forty literary magazines and has a book of poems. He's been featured three times on YourDailyPoem. com, with another forthcoming in 2015. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from San Jose State University, 2007, and was co-founder and teacher, Gold Rush Writers, 2005-present. He served as President, Poetry Center San Jose, 2000-2012. Based on a story extracted from one of his novels, the San Francisco / Peninsula California Writer's Club named him Writer of the Year, 2014.