Poe Ballantine

Poe Ballantine (born 1955 in Denver, Colorado) is the pen name of Edwin Hughes, a fiction and nonfiction writer known for his novels and especially his essays, many of which appear in The Sun.

"[2] In 2013 Hawthorne Books & Literary Arts published Ballantine's memoir, Love & Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere with an introduction by Cheryl Strayed.

One follows Ballantine's personal life, including his decision to settle in Chadron, his marriage to Cristina, a Mexican woman, and Tom, their autistic son.

He was listed as a missing person until the spring of 2007, when his body was found badly burned and tied to a tree on a ranch property south of the college.

[19] God Clobbers Us All and its sequel Decline of the Lawrence Welk Empire both feature the fictional Edgar Donahoe as he makes his way from Southern California to the Caribbean.

[21] In Love & Terror these themes, alongside his expressive self-awareness, are expanded as Ballantine sets down roots in Chadron, Nebraska and begins to investigate the disappearance of a local professor.