Stephen Anderson is a Milwaukee poet and writer whose work has appeared in Southwest Review, Latin American Literature Today, Amsterdam Quarterly, Verse Wisconsin, Foundling Review, Twist In Time, Tipton Poetry Journal, New Purlieu Review, Free Verse, Poetica Review, Life And Legends, Blue Heron Speaks, Blue Heron Review, Moss Piglet and in numerous other print and online journals. He was the recipient of the First Place Award in the Wisconsin Fellowship Of Poets 2005 Triad Contest, and he received an Honorable Mention in the WFOP’s 2016 Chapbook Contest. Many of his poems have been featured on the Milwaukee NPR affiliate WUWM Lake Effect Program. Anderson is the author of three chapbooks, as well as four full length collections, In the Garden of Angels and Demons (2017), The Dream Angel Plays The Cello (2019), High Wire (late 2021) and On the Third Planet from the Sun: New and Selected Poems published in August, 2024 by Kelsay Books. Owing to his Peace Corps experiences in Chile (1967-69) and other experiences living abroad in London, much of his writing reflects a global perspective. In the summer of 2013, six of his poems formed the text for a chamber music song cycle entitled The Privileged Secrets of the Arch performed by some musicians from the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and an opera singer. Anderson’s work is being archived in the Stephen Anderson Collection in the Special Collections Section of the Raynor Libraries at Marquette University.