Gerald McCarthy lives in South Nyack, NY and is the author of War Story (The Crossing Press) and Shoetown (Cloverdale Library). A recipient of awards from the National Writers Union and the NY Council on the Arts, his poetry and fiction have been published in New Letters, TriQuarterly, Beloit Poetry Journal, Ohio Review, Rattle, Ploughshares, Nimrod, and other magazines and anthologies. He has also been a visiting artist at The American Academy in Rome and directs a writing workshop in Tuscany, Italy each summer with Colette Inez and Lynn Lauber.