Another Kissing Couple Has Exploded was the second book to be published by Gatehouse Press. The artwork for the cover was created completely from scratch, drawing inspiration from some of the poems in the book. After going through a few initial concepts and ideas, we settled on this bold yellow design. The kiss marks were made from friends of the publisher kissing onto scrap pieces of paper!

Gary Kissick is a graduate of both the University of Iowa's Writers Workshop and the University of East Anglia. He has served as Editor of the Hawaii Review and has published poems, essays and stories in Esquire, Literary Review, The Nation, Poetry Now, Rock Salt Plum, Rolling Stone, Spiked, The San Fancisco Chronicle, White Noise and many more journals and anthologies.

Honours have included a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship and a PEN Syndicated Fiction Award. His first book of poetry, Outer Islands, was published by the University of Hawaii Press after winning the first Pacific Poetry Competition. His comic novel Winter in Volcano was published by Hutchinson in 1999. He now resides in Norfolk.

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