About the Author
Frank Meola has published work in a variety of forms and places, including New England Review and the New York Times. His Times travel essay on Rachel Carson in Maine was published in the book Footsteps. He has written frequently on Emerson and Thoreau. A recent essay, in Michigan Quarterly Review, centers on the ambiguities of Hispanic identity in America, based partly on his own experience. Several of Meola's stories have been finalists in or won fiction competitions. He has an MFA from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in English from UCLA, specializing in American literature. He teaches writing and humanities at NYU. Frank lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his husband and their two cats.