Darren Subarton lives in Krooklyn, NY, with his Congo African Grey parrot Simone. Besides slinging do-dirty noir fiction and breaking hearts internationally  with his poetry, he is currently shopping his   hard-boiled novel "The Sick-Machine" with a few houses. His poetry and short stories have been showcased in such magazines as Hardboiled, Blue Murder Magazine, Aura Literary Arts Review, Fat Tuesday, the New York Hangover, Global Tapestry Journal (UK), Futures, and Downtown Brooklyn Literary Review. He is also a bronze medal recipient in the North American Poetry Open.