A veteran of World War II, Delbert R. Gardner (1923-2008) taught college English for twenty-one years, and variously served as writer/editor for U.S. Army training materials; usher in a 1940s movie palace; fireman on a locomotive; pinsetter at a bowling alley; salesman of pianos, vacuum cleaners, and insurance; cab driver; and journalist. Over forty of his poems and stories have appeared in The Literary Review, Poetry Digest, American Poetry Magazine and more. An aficionado of the Pre-Raphaelites, Dr. Gardner wrote the books "An Idle Singer" and "His Audience: A Study of William Morris's Poetic Reputation in England, 1858-1900."
Catalog librarian by day, Lyn C. A. Gardner coedits the journal Virginia Libraries. She’s served as editor at a maritime museum and had stories, poems, art, and articles published in American Arts Quarterly, The Cape Rock, City Primeval, Challenging Destiny, The Leading Edge, among others. Though she misses the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, Gardner is pleased to make her home in Tidewater, Virginia, where she is blessed to be near her close-knit family--and almost always has a view of the water.
Links: www.gardnercastle.com/GardnerCastle.htm and find more of Lyn’s writing here: http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/.
Poetry by Lyn Gardner, and her father Delbert Gardner, appears in the CITIES issue of Status Hat (March, 2011).
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