Brooke HorvathBrooke Horvath grew up in Elyria, Ohio, where the playwright Robert E. Lee likewise grew up and where Sherwood Anderson founded a mail-order paint company before one day wisely leaving town. After graduating from Elyria High School, Horvath worked a ariety of jobs�factory, road-crew, tasks less savory�while attending Kent State University, the State University of New York at Binghamton, and Purdue University, from which he received his Ph.D. in 1987.

Presently a Professor of English at Kent State University, where he has taught since 1988, Horvath specializes in modern and contemporary American and world fiction, literary theory, and the lore of the comma. Recent work includes Understanding Nelson Algren (University of South Carolina Press); Line Drives: 100 Contemporary Baseball Poems (Southern Illinois University Press), edited with Tim Wiles of the Baseball Hall of Fame; �The Finer Thread, the Tighter Weave� Essays on the Short Fiction of Henry James (Purdue University Press), co-edited with Joseph Dewey; and Pynchon and Mason & Dixon (University of Delaware Press), co-edited with Irving Malin.

Professor Horvath�s poems and essays about poetry have appeared in a variety of books and periodicals including American Literature, American Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, Journal of the American Medical Association, Poetry, The Prose Poem, and Sewanee Review. His previous collections of poetry include Consolation at Ground Zero (Eastern Washington University Press) and the chapbook In a Neighborhood of Dying Light, which appeared as part of the chapbook anthology Men and Women / Women and Men (Bottom Dog Press).

The father of two daughters, Susan and Jordan, and step-daughters Emily and Caitlin, he makes his home in both Kent, Ohio, and Fredonia, New York, where his wife, Virginia, is Vice-President of Academic Affairs at the State University of New York, Fredonia. Read More Read Less