Stephen AckermanStephen Ackerman worked as an attorney in the Legal Counsel Division of the New York City Law Department for over thirty years, and retired in 2019. He earned a B.A. from Columbia University, where he studied with Kenneth Koch and David Shapiro; an MA. from The Johns Hopkins University (The Writing Seminars), where he studied with David St. John; and a J.D. from Boston University. While at BU, he took a course in the Creative Writing Program with Linda Gregerson. His poems have appeared in many publications, including Best New Poets 2010, Boulevard, Columbia Review, Jewish Quarterly, Mudfish, Partisan Review, Ploughshares, Plume, Red Wheelbarrow, Salamander, Seneca Review, upstreet, and Western Humanities Review as well as on Poetry Daily. He was born in Janesville, Wisconsin, grew up in Sudbury, Massachusetts, lived in Brooklyn for many years, and now lives in Poughquag, New York. Read More Read Less