John Kropf is the author of three books. His most recent is A Midwestern Heart: Poems (Bottom Dog Press, 2024). Color Capital of the World: Growing Up with the Legacy of a Crayon Factory (University of Akron Press, 2022) was winner of Bowling Green State University’s 2023 prize for Local History. Kropf’s first book, Unknown Sands: Travels in the World’s Most Isolated Country (Dusty Spark, 2006), was praised as a fascinating narrative bound to hook adventurers.

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