Bud Robert Berkich was born in Somerville, NJ and raised in Bound Brook, NJ. He has been writing creatively since the age of eight, and has been published in The Idiom, Subliminal Interiors, Quantum Poetry Magazine and The Analectic. A one-act play entitled End Street was published in The Rockhurst Review. Bud is the co-founder and director of The Bridgewater Poetry Group, Bridgewater, NJ. He currently resides in Manville, NJ.