Richard Hoffman is the author of Without Paradise (Cedar Hill Publications, 2005), Half the House: A Memoir (New Rivers Press, 2005), Interference & Other Stories (New Rivers Press, 2009) and, most recently, EMBLEM (Barrow Street Press, 2011). His collection GOLD STAR ROAD won the 2006 Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize and the 2008 Sheila Motton Award from the New England Poetry Club. He is Writer-in-Residence at Emerson College and currently serves as Chair of PEN New England.