: About Me

I'm 36 years old. I grew up in Greenbelt, Maryland. I graduated summa cum laude from the University of Maryland with a B.A. in English in 1997, and received an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Emerson College, with a 4.0 GPA, in 1999.

My poems have been published in The Baltimore Review, The Lyric, The Isle Review, The Alembic, and SAGGIO. My book reviews have been published in Poet Lore and The Beacon Street Review. I have taught a poetry workshop at the Brookline Community Center for the Arts in Brookline, Massachusetts, where I live. I've also self-published two collections of poetry, The Account and Mystical Symphony.

I have worked as a bookstore supervisor and administrative assistant. Currently, in addition to writing for Helium, I'm a supervisor at a market research company, as well as a private tutor and freelance editor/proofreader.

My interests besides reading and writing include Judaism, nature, history, politics, and just about anything in the arts and humanities.

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Father figures

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Dad moved in with Aunt Paula and me to fill Gramps’s place.  I came to know more closely this tall man in rugby shirt and jeans with long, loosely curling gray hair who used to drive me home from school. With him I could trade bad puns and dirty jokes; learn, watching a Redskins kickoff returner retreat a yard or two to attempt outflanking oncoming tacklers, “Never move backwards with the ball”; and, best of all, talk politics, history, and books— stacked flat in the lower shelves of the case that held the stereo beside his recliner, from Dick Francis to Edward...

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