I’m the retired chair of the English/Creative Writing program at Saint Joseph’s College. I attended the Iowa Writers’ Graduate Program for two summers. I’ve published a novel, Fishing’s No Good Without You, a dozen stories, and won the Hopewell prize for best fiction judged by Alan Cheusse, book editor for NPR. Most recently, my piece, “And One Fine Morning…,†about the difficulties of reconciling science and religion appeared in Atticus Review. “The Last Dream Song,†a fictional poem about John Berryman’s suicide appeared in Crack the Spine. “Adam’s rib,†a poem about my wife’s death from cancer is in the Winter, 2017, issue of Torrid Literature Journal. “You Can Be Anything You Want to Be†was accepted by The Chronicle of Higher Education.