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Berkley Wendell Semple was born in Guyana. He has published four collections of poetry, and his poetry and fiction have appeared in Callaloo, The Hampden-Sydney Review, The Caribbean Writer, and many other publications. He is a veteran of the US armed forces and a graduate of the Naval School of Health Sciences. He holds an MA and MLS degrees from (CUNY) and an MPhil from Long Island University (LIU) where he is a current Ph.D. candidate. Berkley Wendell Semple is a librarian and currently works for the Queens Public Library system in New York City.