George Guida, a Long Island native, is the author of six full-length collections of poems, among them The Fulfillment Center (Foothills Publishing, 2026), Zen of Pop (Long Sky Media, 2020), Pugilistic (WordTech Editions, 2015), and Low Italian (Bordighera Press, 2007); two novels--The Uniform (Guernica Editions, 2024) and Posts from Suburbia (Encircle Publications, 2022); The Pope Stories (Bordighera, 20212), The Walking Amoeba: Memoirs of a Fat Kid (Bordighera, 2026), and the 2026 Bright Hill Press Chapbook Award-winning Bloom and the Blitz.