Scorpion Moon and Lost Savannas

About the Book

Scorpion Moon and Lost Savannas, subtitled Two Books of Poems are selections of poems written by Steven Meeker between 1972 and 2000. Many of the earlier poems refl ect the experience of growing up, off and on, in rural South West Ohio. Some of the later poems perhaps represent efforts to express observation of ordinary things which are sometimes found to be somewhat more than ordinary.

About the Author

Steven Meeker was born 10 June 1951 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Meeker earned an A.B. at Ohio University in 1973. He earned a M.F.A in English a the University of Iowa in 1978 were he taught sophomore literature in the regular English Department. He was teaching fellow in a doctoral program at the University of Utah from 1979 to 1981. Meeker suffered from an undiagnosed life-threatening sleep disorder, which contributed to incapacitating him in the early 1980’s. The condition was diagnosed and treated in late 1987. Meeker lives in Ohio.