A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, BJ has written and taught poetry and literature for more than 15 years. In that time, he has created youth programs in Italy, led writing workshops in Sitka, Alaska, taught fiction and poetry writing for the Putney School Summer Programs in Vermont, and directed a group of young writers around Ireland. He has been a teaching fellow in the Klingenstein Summer Institute at the Teachers College, Columbia University, and at the Yiddish Book Center. Additionally he has presented on collaborative writing, humor in poetry, and using Jewish literature in the creative writing classroom. His writing has been published in many journals, magazines, newspapers, and anthologies including Gulf Coast, The North American Review, Moon City Review, Pinwheel, Heavy Feather, Stirring: A Literary Collection, and Hobart.