Ron Brooks is a native of Roanoke who moved to Norfolk in 1988. He is now a poet and graduate student at Old Dominion University. As an undergraduate, he received a writing grant from Old Dominion, which gave him time and funding to complete Second Mountain: A Poem Cycle. He is currently an editor for Dominion Review and the administrative assistant for "Forbidden Passage."  [extracted from 1996 brochure]