Alan Perry is a Minnesota poet and editor. His debut chapbook, Clerk of the Dead, was a finalist and honorable mention in the Cathy Smith Bowers Poetry Competition. He is a founder and Co-Managing Editor of the online journal RockPaperPoem, a Senior Poetry Editor for Typehouse magazine, and a Best of the Net nominee. His poems have appeared in Tahoma Literary Review, Third Wednesday, Ocotillo Review, Panoply, Schuylkill Valley Journal, and elsewhere. Perry holds a B.A. in English from the University of Minnesota. He and his wife divide their time between a suburb of Minneapolis, MN and Tucson, AZ.