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A poet and fiction writer from Kansas who now lives in Los Angeles. During college and after he worked in several states at a wide variety of labor jobs: house painter, ditch digger, ranch handyman, aircraft burrer, welder, sheet metal worker, and metal shop supervisor. He then earned a doctorate in English from the University of Southern California and taught college writing courses in Los Angeles. Now he writes full time: novels, stories, and poetry collections. He also writes and helps produce the feature documentary films of his wife--director/producer Jayasri Majumdar of KolKata, India.

Hart's stories and poems have appeared in several hundred literary journals, commercial magazines, newspapers and anthologies, including California Quarterly, Chiron Review, Cicada, Commonweal, The Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo), Florida Review, The Honolulu Advertiser, Mainichi Daily News (Tokyo), Pittsburgh Quarterly, Potomac Review, Quixote, and Stand in England. He's published eight poetry collections, two of which won national awards. His first novel Never Fade Away (2002) received excellent reviews and is used increasingly as a college text. Two feature documentaries from Hartfilms have played on PBS: Roots in the Sand and Sisters of Selma.

Hart was keynote speaker at the 2004 New York State TESOL Conference and the 2004 Ohio TESOL Annual Conference--and has presented often elsewhere. He looks for opportunities to speak, sign books, or engage with college classes. To inquire, contact him through his email address below.

AUTHOR EVENTS

February 2007

PBS Premier of "Sisters of Selma," a feature documentary about Catholic nuns who joined Martin Luther King in Alabama in 1965 to demand voting rights for African Americans.

March 15, 2007

Publication of Operation Supergoose, a satirical novel, by Timberline Press.

March 27-29, 2007

Meet with and speak to the faculty and doctoral students at the University of Toledo's College of Education about Never Fade Away

May 22, 2007

Meet with students in the ESL program at Santa Monica College to discuss Never Fade Away

October 30, 2007

Speak to faculty, students and community in Santa Monica College's Literary Series: "How Ethnic Discrimination Works in Academia Today" Never Fade Away book signing

June 21, 2008

Attend Southeast EMMY Awards in Atlanta, where "Sisters of Selma" was nominated for Best Documentary and for Best Music Composition/Arrangement

March 30- April 1, 2009

Meet with students and faculty at the University of Toledo's College of Education to discuss Never Fade Away.