Survival Tips for the Pending Apocalypse

Shawn Pavey has delivered newspapers mowed lawns bagged groceries cut meat laid sewer pipe bussed tables washed dishes roofed houses crunched numbers rented cars worked in hotels worn an apron at Kinkos and been paid to write everything from résumés to music reviews. Currently he earns a living as an Executive Recruiter in Mission KS where he lives with his wife and two worthless but adorable cats. He is the author of Talking to Shadows (2008 Main Street Rag Press) and Nobody Steals the Towels from a Motel 6 (2015 Spartan Press) Co-founder and former Associate Editor of The Main Street Rag Literary Journal and a former board member and officer of The Writers Place a Kansas City-based literary non-profit. His poems essays and journalism appear in a variety of national and regional publications. Hes hosted poetry readings in bars coffee shops haunted houses bookstores libraries front porches seedy motel rooms and abandoned warehouses. A graduate of the University of North Carolinas Undergraduate Honors Creative Writing Program he likes his Tom Waits loud his bourbon single-barrel and his basketball Carolina Blue.