Jefferson Singer is the Faulk Foundation Professor of Psychology at Connecticut College in New London, CT. He studied creative writing at Amherst College and Harvard University, taking seminars with Seamus Heaney and Robert Fitzgerald while at Harvard. In addition to teaching and research in clinical and personality psychology, he has a private psychotherapy practice in West Hartford, CT. He is married, a father of two daughters, and grandfather of Miriam, 1 year old.