Richard Hoffman is author of the poetry collections Without Paradise, GOLD STAR ROAD (Barrow Street Press, 2007), EMBLEM (Barrow Street Press, 2011), and NOON UNTIL NIGHT (Barrow Street Press, 2017); the memoirs Love & Fury and HALF THE HOUSE (New Rivers Press, 2015); and the short story collection Interference and Other Stories. He is Senior Writer in Residence at Emerson College, in Boston.