Michael Blumenthal is the author of seven collections of poetry, most recently And (BOA, 2009), two memoirs, and the novel Weinstock Among the Dying (Pleasure Boat Studio, 2008), winner of Hadassah Magazine‘s Harold U. Ribelow Prize for the best work of Jewish fiction. He is currently the Mina Hohenberg Darden Endowed Chair in Creative Writing at Old Dominion University. (updated 6/2010)