Michael Cooney has published poetry in Badlands, Amethyst, Second Chance Lit, Bitter Oleander, Big Windows Review and other journals. His short stories have appeared in Sundial Magazine, Bandit Fiction and Cerasus and two of his novellas were published recently by Running Wild Press and ELJ Editions. He taught in public high schools and community colleges of New York City for forty years and more recently facilitated a writing workshop with the New York Writers Coalition.