Richard Hoffman is author of the memoirs Half the House and Love & Fury; the poetry collections, Without Paradise, Gold Star Road (winner of the 2006 Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize and the 2008 Sheila Motton Award from the New England Poetry Club) Emblem, and Noon until Night; and a short story collection, Interference & Other Stories. His work has appeared in Agni, Ascent, Harvard Review, Hudson Review, The Literary Review, Poetry, Witness and other magazines. He teaches at Emerson College in Boston, and is nonfiction editor of Solstice: a Magazine of Diverse Voices..