David Henry Sterry is the author of 16 books, a performer, muckraker, educator, activist, and book doctor. His first was a memoir called Chicken, about when he was 17, and being taught existentialism by bunch of nuns at Immaculate Heart College, while being sucked into the illegal underground sex business in Hollywood. His second memoir was called Master of Ceremonies, about when he was the master ceremonies at a nightclub called Chippendale’s in the mid-80s, when it was the hottest show in the world. It’s about being the ugliest man at the center of a world filled with the most beautiful men in the world. While falling madly in love with the woman he married, he also wrote several novels, books of nonfiction and poetry. He in fact started as a poet, and poetry has always been in his blood. “(Poetry) absolutely informs all of my writing,” says David. As a poet he has been published everywhere from Santa Monica Review to Madison Review to Coe Review. David is also an activist, who writes regularly for the Huffington Post.