Ron Shapiro is an award winning retired English and Creative Writing teacher with over 40 years of classroom experience and a Fellow of the Pennsylvania and Northern Virginia Writing Projects, he now mentors students with college essays as well as teaches Memoir Writing at OLLI through George Mason University. In 2011, he received Cornell University’s Outstanding Teacher Award. He has published writings in The Whole Word Catalogue, More Strategies for Teaching Writing, NoVa Bards 2022, NoVa Bards 2023, Gatherings, Poets of the Promise, Poetry X Hunger as well as two chapbooks: Sacred Spaces and Wonderings.Continue Reading