Marc Berley was professor of English at Rutgers and Barnard/Columbia. His fiction, poetry, and nonfiction have appeared in the Iowa Review, the Threepenny Review, LitHub, the New York Post, and newspapers nationwide. He has appeared on BBC, WOR, and KABC and has been covered by Reuters, USA Today, the Washington Post, and ABC’s The View. He holds a BA, MA, and PhD in English and comparative literature from Columbia. The author of After the Heavenly Tune and editor of Reading the Renaissance, he is founding editor of the award-winning literary magazine LitMag. He lives in New York.