Meet Dustin Pickering

Dustin Pickering, Houston Texas, United States

Dustin Pickering is founder of Transcendent Zero Press. He has contributed writing to Huffington Post, Los Angeles Review, The Statesman (India), Journal of Liberty and International Affairs, The Colorado Review, World Literature Today, Asymptote Journal, and several other publications. He is the author of numerous poetry collections and books including Salt and Sorrow. He placed in the top 100 for the erbacce prize in 2021 and 2023, and was a finalist in Adelaide Literary Journal’s first short fiction contest. He was longlisted for the Rahim Karim World Prize in 2022 and given the honor of Knight of World Peace by the World Institute for Peace that same year. He hosts the popular interview series World Inkers Network on YouTube and co-founded World Inkers Printing and Publishing.

Dustin Pickering is the Speaker for the Episode 2 of the ANA BAYELSA International Webinar, which is part of the Chapter's Continuing Creative Writing Education Programme.

Dustin Pickering will speak on the topic, "Exploring Cross-Cultural Perspectives in Creative Writing", scheduled to hold on the 14th of December, 2025, time, 5:00 pm.