Ken Burstall is a middle-aged Englishman, living in Austin Texas with far too many children. He works, intermittently, as an oilfield geologist and has calculated that he has spent six of the last twenty years on oil rigs far offshore. His poetry has appeared in Deathly Romantic ezine, Horrotica zine and Illumen magazine. He has an unpopular weblog at fallslikesnow.blogspot.com.