A graduate of the University of Southern California’s Cinema-Television Production program, Jerome Berglund spent a picaresque decade in the entertainment industry before returning to the midwest where he was born and raised. Berglund has published short stories in Paragon Press’s Veisalgia, the Stardust Review, and the Watershed Review, a play in Iris Literary Journal, and poetry many places including Abstract Magazine, the Dewdrop, Wild Roof, Lychee Rind, deLuge, Meat for Tea: The Valley Review, GRIFFEL, Cathexis Northwest Press, and Ulalume Lighthouse.