JACK CROCKER has published poems in The Texas Review, Southern Poetry Review, Mississippi Review, and other journals, and fiction in The Cimarron Review. His poems have been anthologized in The Texas Anthology, Mississippi Writers: Reflections of Childhood, Texas Stories and Poems, and Florida in Poetry. He has written for educational television, including "Introduction to Folksongs," (scripted and performed). An interview with Galway Kinnell appeared in Walking Down Stairs. A biography of Jimmy Rodgers was published in Mississippi Heroes and of Sergeant York in Heroes of Tennessee. He has written songs for StaFree Publishing Company and had a recording contract with Fretone Records of Memphis, Tennessee. Currently he is associate professor of English at Florida Gulf Coast University, where he was founding dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.
