Professor Tom Fink--member of LaGuardia's English Department since 1981--regularly teaches ENG 101, 102, and 270 (Introduction to Poetry) and sometimes teaches the Teaching Practicum for CUNY Grad students. He is the author of two books of criticism, including "A Different Sense of Power": Problems of Community in Late-Twentieth Century U.S. Poetry (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickison University Press, 2001), and five books of poetry, most recently Clarity and Other Poems (Marsh Hawk Press, 2008), as well as an e-chapbook and two chapbooks that appeared in 2009. Autopsy Turvy, a book of poems coauthored with Maya Diablo Mason, will be published by Meritage Press in 2010.  Fink is the co-editor of Burning Interiors: David Shapiro's Poetry and Poetics (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2007) and Literature Around the Globe (Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt, 1994). His poem, "Yinglish Strophes IX," was chosen by Heather McHugh and David Lehman for Best American Poetry 2007 (Scribner's). He has published over 165 reviews, interviews, and articles in numerous journals, including Contemporary Literature, Barrow Street, Boston Review, American Poetry Review, Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, Exchange Values, Jacket, Minnesota Review, Milk, Otoliths, Slope, Talisman, Twentieth Century Literature, and Word for/ Word, Verse.

Schools Attended: Princeton University (B.A.) and Columbia University (M.A., Ph.D.)

Area of Specialization: Contemporary U.S. Poetry