Richard Hoffman is the author of Half the House: A Memoir; the poetry collections Without Paradise, EMBLEM (Barrow Street Press, 2011), and GOLD STAR ROAD, winner of both the 2006 Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize and the 2008 Sheila Motton Award from the New England Poetry Club; and the short story collection INTERFERENCE AND OTHER STORIES (New Rivers Press, 2009). He is senior writer-in-residence at Emerson College and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
