Dustin Pickering is founder of Transcendent Zero Press. He has contributed writing to Huffington Post, The Statesman (India), The Colorado Review, World Literature Today, Asymptote, and several other publications. He was given the honor of Knight of World Peace by the World Institute for Peace in 2022. He hosts the popular interview series World Inkers Network on YouTube. He is author of the poetry collections Salt and Sorrow, Knows No End, The Alder-man, Only and Again, The Stone and the Square, and several others, as well as the novella Be Not Afraid of What You May Find. His most recent poetry collection is Crime of the Extraordinary published by Hawakal Publishers.
