Edmund Conti is is looking forward to the Booker Prize and the Pulitzer Prize, but not in any particular order of optimism. For now he is content with the Willard Espy Prize for Light Verse he won in 2001. His collection The Ed. C Scrolls was published by the Runaway Spoon Press in 1995 and a Kelsay collection, Just So You Know, appeared in August 2018, available from Kelsay and Amazon US.