Bette Ann Maskowitz

Novelist, memoirist, essayist, teacher, Bette Ann Moskowitz' love of language has led her to write in every genre, from songs and poetry to fiction and non-fiction prose. She believes in the unexpected in life, and writes in the interstices between funny and sad. She is a past recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for Creative Non-Fiction. Also past recipient of the Queens College President's Award for Excellence in Teaching, she pays attention in this novel to the difficult and sometimes strange world teachers inhabit.