has published four volumes of poetry: Without Paradise (Cedar Hill, 2002); Gold Star Road (Barrow Street, 2007), winner of the Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize and the Sheila Motton Award from the New England Poetry Club; Emblem (Barrow Street, 2011); and his new col- lection, Noon until Night (Barrow Street, 2017). His other books include the memoirs Half the House (reissued by New Rivers Press in 2015) and Love & Fury (Beacon, 2014), and the story collection Interference and Other Stories (New Rivers, 2009). He is senior writer-in-residence at Emerson College in Boston and an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia University.