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Greg Kosmicki  is an American poet, editor, and publisher who has written four full-length books and eight chapbooks of poetry. He founded the Backwaters Press in 1997. In 2015, he stepped down as editor and is now editor emeritus. Under Kosmicki's editorship, the press was awarded seventeen Nebraska Book Awards since 2000 for anthologies, design and individual author's collections of poetry. According to Project Muse, "Each year, the small Omaha press publishes two or three titles by Heartland writers, bringing the often stunning but sometimes forgotten voices of the Midwest to the literary world." In 2011, Kosmicki and the press were awarded the Jane Geske Award for "exceptional, long-term contribution" to books in Nebraska.

Kosmicki's own poetry has been published in numerous magazines since 1975, both print and online, including Briarcliff Review, Chiron Review, Connecticut Review, Cortland Review, New Letters, Nimrod, The Paris Review, Poetry East, Smoking Poet, Paddlefish, Rattle (magazine), Windless Orchard, New Works Review, Kansas Quarterly, Cimarron Review, Whole Notes, and Pebble.

Kosmicki received a BA and MA in English from the University of Nebraska — Lincoln. He and Debbie, his wife of 40 years, are the parents of three children, grandparents of one. Kosmicki resides in Omaha, Nebraska.

Books

 * Sheep Can Recognize Individual Human Faces, Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2014.
 * New Route in the Dream, Pudding House Publications, 2010.
 * We Have Always Been Coming to This Morning, Sandhills Press, 2007.
 * Some Hero of the Past, WordTech Communications, 2006
 * The Patron Saint of Lost and Found, Lone Willow Press, 2003.
 * For My Son in a Motel Room, Sandhills Press, 1999.
 * Greatest hits, 1975-2001, Pudding House Publications, 1999.
 * Marigolds, Black Star Press, 1998.
 * Nobody Lives Here Who Saw This Sky, Missing Spoke Press, 1998.
 * How Things Happen, bradypress, 1997