Howie Faerstein is the author of two chapbooks: Play a Song on the Drums, he said and Out of Order (Main Street Rag) and two full-length collections: Dreaming of the Rain in Brooklyn and Googootz and Other Poems, both published by Press 53. 

An Adjunct Emeritus, Howie taught Creative Writing, Composition, Introduction to World Literature, and Introduction to American Literature at Westfield State University, Berkshire Community College, College of Santa Fe, University of New Mexico-Taos, and Fort Lewis College in Durango, CO. 

His poetry and reviews can be found in Great River Review, Nimrod, CutThroat, Off the Coast, Rattle, upstreet, Nine Mile and on-line in Verse Daily, Nixes Mate, Gris-Gris, Peacock Journal, and Connotation and numerous other publications. 

A five-time Pushcart Prize nominee, he volunteers as a mentor at the Center for New Americans, is co-poetry editor of CutThroat, A Journal of the Arts, and lives in Florence, MA.