Samuel Vargo worked most of his adult life as a newspaper reporter. He holds a BA in Political Science and an MA in English from Youngstown State University in Youngstown, OH.  Vargo was fiction editor of Pig Iron Press, Youngstown, Ohio, for 12 years.  A book-length collection of Vargo's short stories entitled "Electric Onion Head and the Rotating Cyclops of the Month" was published by Literary Road.  His poetry and fiction appear in:  Antithesis Common, Ascent Aspirations, Blue Fifth, Censored Poets, Centrifugal Eye, The Circle, Clark Street Review, Connecticut Review, The Cynic Online Magazine, Dandelion, Edifice Wrecked, Electric Acorn, Elegant Thorn, Glass - A Journal of Poetry, Guideposts, Gypsy Blood Review, Higginsville Reader, Late Knocking, Licking River Review, Lynx Eye, Mastodon Dentist, National Lampoon Humor Network (College Stories, Dead Frog, The Frown, Points in Case), The Nocturnal Lyric, The Spoof, nthposition, Ohio Teachers Write, Poetry Motel, Projected Letters, Red Dancefloor, Reed, Scholars and Rogues, Small Press Review, Verve, undergroundwindow.com, Why Vandalism?, Window Lit-Mag, Word Riot, Yasse, and other presses and literary journals, and now at Eye On Life.  

Read Samuel Vargo's poetry:   

• Two Cent Well Drinks at Unhappy Hour

• The Funny Pages

• The Ampersand of Psychanalysis

• Sick's Sense

• I hate to write poetry

• It's Home

• It's Afternoon Again

• 6 at Joey D's Donut Shoppe

• Contempt Prior to Investigation

• Molly May's got a new hairdo