Author Description

"Institutionalized" is a 2024 Scars Publications poetry and prose book with material from assorted writers and artists, as the 9/24 issue release of the literary magazine "Down in the Dirt" (http://scars.tv/dirt). Since 2014 "Down in the Dirt" magazine has been released every month (and sometimes with bonus issues) as a 6"x9" perfect-bound paperback book, with not only its usual ISSN# (print ISSN# 1554-9623 and Internet ISSN# 1554-9666), but also an ISBN#. Because of ISBN# releases, all issues now carry a title to accompany the new format, reflecting the writing inside the book as well as the cover design. Writers and artists included in this Scars Publications perfect-bound 6" x 9" ISBN# paperback book include Alan Ford, Bill Tope, Bradley Sutton, David Sapp, Dedrick Williams, Doug Hawley, Garima Mishra, Gary William Ramsey, George Wehrfritz, Ian M. Ryan, Iftekhar Sayeed, Jack Coey, James Bates, Jamie Liddell, Janet Kuypers, Jim Burns, Joan McNerney, John Leggett, Jonathan Chibuike Ukah, Jose Palacios, Karl Kliparchuk, KB Ballentine, Ken Cathers, Kenneth DiMaggio, Kenneth J. Russell, Kim Malinowski, Latoya Kidd, M. Benjamin Thorne, Mike Rader, Paul Smith, Peter Stohlberg, Sarah Das Gupta, Scott Taylor, Susan Pollet, Susan Sparrow, Susie Gharib, T. A. Seward, Tiffanny Haacker, Binod Dawadi, Donald Reed Greenwood, Edward Michael O'Durr Supranowicz, Eleanor Leonne Bennett, Elena Botts, Isabel G. de Diego, John Yotko, Kyle Hemmings, Sherry Shahan, and Wes Heine.