M. Scott Douglass is the Publisher and Managing Editor of Main Street Rag Publishing Company founded in 1996 ( North Carolina). His poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and he was the recipient of a NC Arts & Science Emerging Artists Grant in 2001. His work has appeared in such places as The Asheville Poetry Review, Iodine Poetry Journal, and Southern Poetry Review (among others). His four collections of poetry include Auditioning For Heaven, Balancing On Two Wheels, STEEL WOMB Revisited and Dip Says Hi and his newest collection, Hard to Love, to be released in Fall 2011. He has taught Graphic Design at Central Piedmont Community College; his design work has earned him two PICA Awards and was nominated for a 2010 Eric Hoffer Award.