Ivars Balkits

Ivars Balkits is a writer of poetry and prose who has been a dual citizen of Latvia and the USA since 2016. He now lives in a small mountain village in Crete, Greece. He has received two Individual Excellence Awards from the Ohio Arts Council, for poetry in 1999 and creative nonfiction in 2014. His work has appeared in Sortes, Antae, Feed the Holy, The Ekphrastic Review, Meetinghouse Magazine, and Mercurius Magazine, among others.