I was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, taught junior/senior high school English and Creative Writing on Long Island. I knew I wanted to be a writer in elementary school. I started by scribbling terrible rhyming poems and short stories in the notebooks I carried. Over the years I have published FREAKs, a young adult novel about bullying and being different, set in a Long Island junior high school and Pearl, a novel inspired by my years of teaching and loving John Steinbeck’s The Pearl. No Strings Attached is a collection of short fiction. Brooklyn Family Scenes is a volume of stories, essays and poems about my Brooklyn family. Scalia vs. the Universe or: My Life And Hard Times is a collection of my “first person” humor stories. Different Other Different Stories is a collection of 18 varied stories. Fish Story - A Modern Fable for Grown Ups is a moral tale of survival in a fish-eat-fish world. The Year That the Buds Didn’t Come... A Tale for Pandemic Times is an illustrated modern tale for these political pandemic times. UFSD 71 is my magnum opus, my longest book, a dark comic school novel that took me 40+ years to write! Pee Father and the Earwax Elf is the first of what I hope will be a number of picture books for younger readers. Finally Poetry In Alphabetical Order A Collection of Original Poems is a compilation of all my poetry ever written, so far, and they are in alphabetical order.