John Guzlowski‘s writing appears in Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac, The North American Review, The Ontario Review, Salon.com, Rattle, and Crab Orchard Review. His poems and personal essays about his parents’ experiences as slave laborers in Nazi Germany and refugees making a life for themselves in Chicago appear in his book Echoes of Tattered Tongues (Aquila Polonica Press, 2016). His novel Road of Bones (Cervena Barva Press, 2015), is about two German lovers separated by WWII.