Stephen Wolf

Stephen Wolf is the editor of I Speak of the City: Poems of New York (Columbia University Press). His excerpt about the park’s notorious Casino appeared in The New York Times, and his city portraits and histories appeared regularly in The Villager. His fiction has been published in Playboy, Ploughshares, Shenandoah, Penthouse, The New American Library anthology American Families, and his short story cycle Intimate Articles, with illustrations by Larry Rivers, was published by TenSpeed Press. Born in Chicago, he has been a truck driver, bike messenger, construction worker, gymnastics coach, received a Ph.D. in American Literature from the University of Illinois, and when not in Central Park teaches literature and humanities at Berkeley College in New York City.