Edward Supranowicz

Edward Michael O'Doraidh Supranowicz is the grandson of Irish and Russian immigrants. Both sides of the family worked in the coal mines and steel mills of Pennsylvania. He grew up on a small farm in Southern Ohio, but has also lived in DC,and various parts of OH, PA, and MASS and hitched, lived, and worked around the USA for five years in his younger days.

About 350 of his black and white sketches have appeared in literary magazines. His digital work is posted at various internet sites such as , , and . Recent digital work has appeared or will soon appear in FishFood, Door Is a Jar, Another Chicago Magazine,Streetlight Magazine, Dream Noir, and other online and print journals.

He also writes and has had poetry published in 8 different countries. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize three times.

His work history includes college instructor, VISTA Volunteer, substitute teacher, construction, pipeline, factory work, landscaping, military service, state parole and probation officer, carpet layer, and various and sundry other things in the grand struggle to survive.

Mr. Supranowicz has graduate work in studio painting, printmaking and digital art. Other areas of study include English, psychology, and sociology. He has four granted degrees and the equivalent of eight degrees, some of which he received by testing out of subjects and courses, and a whole lot better education by what he read and did outside of academia.

Co-curator of Male Artists of Appalachia at Ohio University Multicultural Center 2015.