Lou Orfanella, a New York based teacher, writer, and workshop facilitator who has also worked as a broadcast and print journalist, is the author of more than twenty books and chapbooks of poetry, fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, and drama including most recently Some Days are Mostly Maintenance: Poems, Some Love Poems Have Happy Endings, Others Not So Much: Poems, Single A Serenade: A Novel, Radical Acceptance: Poems, Unexpected Guests: Poems That Arrived Without Warning, The Fundamental Things Apply: A Novella, and New York Dispatches: New and Selected Stories. He has published over 100 articles, essays, columns, reviews and poems in numerous regional and national magazines, newspapers, and journals including The New York Daily News, College Bound, English Journal, World Hunger Year Magazine, Discoveries, Teacher Magazine, and New York Teacher. He holds degrees from Columbia University and Fordham University.