Fiction Writer, Poet, Playwright, Educator, Memoir Writer and Literary Critic
I am the past president of the Michigan College English Association. I have a Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from the University of Chicago. I have published four poetry books: Nature's Olympics (Wipf and Stock, 2021), Exodus (WordTech Communications, 2014), Folk Concert: Changing Times (Anaphora Literary Press, 2012) and Traffic Stop (Finishing Line Press, 2011). My scholarly book, Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, and the Reader of Drama, was published in 1990 by the University of Missouri Press. My fiction picture book about bullying for children, How the Moon Regained Her Shape (Arbordale, 2006; 7th edn. 2022), has won four national awards. My play The Cell Phone won fourth place in a national contest and was performed twice at the Fenton Village Players One-Act Play Festival on June 24-25, 2011 in Fenton, Michigan. Triton College produced another play, Pledging, as part of its Tritonysia Play Festival in May 2017. Choeofpleirn Press published Pledging in Rushing Through the Dark (2022).
Although some students do not like learning grammar, I feel strongly that they will have better control and confidence as writers if they know some basic grammar and grammatical terms. Teachers and professors cannot explain fragments and run-on sentences to…
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On Saturday, June 24, 2017 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., Kazoo Books is hosting a reception for the Oakwood Neighborhood Association’s annual Oakwood Neighborhood Reunion. Local writers attending this reunion and autographing their books for children and adults include…
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The magazine Jewish Currents has accepted two of my poems. “A Day Off” was published in its Jewish New Year Supplement in September 2017. The themes of this supplement are “Jewish Currents Goes to Heaven/Jewish Currents Goes to Hell.” The other…
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