Norman StockNorman Stock's first book, Buying Breakfast for My Kamikaze Pilot, was published by Gibbs Smith in 1994 as winner of the Peregrine Smith Poetry Contest. His poems have appeared in The New Republic, College English, The ew York Quarterly, The New England Review, DENVER QUARTERLY, Verse, and many other magazines, as well as in anthologies and textbooks. The recipient of awards from the Writer's Voice, Poets & Writers' Maureen Egan Writers Exchange, the Bennington Writing Workshops, and the Tanne Foundation, he has also been a Bread Loaf fellow, a Sewanee scholar, and a finalist for Poet Laureate of Queens. Formerly the Acquisitions Librarian at Montclair State University, from which he retired in 2005, he lives with his wife, Lydia Chang, a clinical psychotherapist, in Jackson Heights New York. Read More Read Less