Dan Masterson

Dan Masterson (February 22, 1934 – August 12, 2022) was an American poet;^[1] he was born in Buffalo, New York.^[2]

Biography

Dan Masterson was born in 1934 during the Great Depression as the youngest of Stephen and Kathleen Masterson's three children. He attended St. Paul's Parochial School in the Buffalo suburb, Kenmore, and graduated from Kenmore High School in 1952; Masterson being the president of his graduating class.

Masterson studied at

Signal Corps, he was hired on to promote traveling Broadway plays and musicals, while his wife worked as a Madison Avenue copywriter. They moved to Rockland County where Dan became a substitute high school teacher, then a full-time teacher, before joining the English faculty at Rockland Community College, where he has remained since the mid-sixties. He and Janet divide their time between their home in Pearl River and their cabin in the high-peak region of the Adirondacks

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Literary career

Dan Masterson's first book, On Earth As It Is, was published in 1978, by

The University of Illinois Press. In 1986, Masterson was elected to membership in Pen International in recognition of his first two volumes of verse: On Earth As It Is and Those Who Trespass. He's been a manuscript judge for The Associated Writing Programs' national manuscript competition, and a contributing editor to the annual PUSHCART PRIZE ANTHOLOGY. He also has been the recipient of two writing fellowships from The State University of New York, and was the first Writer-in-Residence at The Chautauqua Writers Center. In 2006, Syracuse University's Bird Library assumed stewardship of "The Dan Masterson Papers" for its Special Collections Research Center.^{[citation needed}

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