Gregory W. Randall majored in English and Latin at St.Olaf College and spent innumerable hours in the music library. Classical music by composers such as Sibelius and Brahms continue to inform both the structure and pacing of his poetry.
Mark Doty selected Double Happiness for the 5th Annual Camber Press Chapbook Award for 2009. 2010 chapbook publications included A Room in the Country from Pudding House Press and Uncommon Refrains from The Lives You Touch Publications. Finishing Lines Press released Blue Water Views in 2011.
First published by The Pedestal Magazine, his poem “Confessions of an Apothecary” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
He is a recipient of a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize for 2008 and a finalist for the 2010 Sixteen Rivers Chapbook Contest as well as the 2008 White Pine Press book award and the 2006 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize.
His recent work appears or is forthcoming in The Bitter Oleander, CQ, Cream City, GW Review, Louisiana Literature, Louisville Review, Pedestal, Rosebud, Southern California Review, South Carolina Review, Sow’s Ear, Stand, and other noted journals.
Greg owns a financial planning practice in Santa Rosa, CA where he and his wife host the Londonberry Salon a quarterly celebration of poetry in their home.
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