I was raised in the low-rent reaches of New Jersey,16 minutes from Times Square. I've lived in Manhattan for fifty years. I've had stories and poems in American Poetry Review, Best New Poets 2012, Columbia Review, Salamander, upstreet and tons of others. I'm a retired Google technical writer and teacher of Deaf young people. I have a B.A. from Columbia (no honors). Both my first book of poems, “It Wasn’t Easy to Reach You,” from Trail to Table, and my first novel, “Rabbis of the Garden State," from Rattling Good Yarns, will be published in 2025. My longtime partner Mike Rendino is an award-winning playwright.
