About Gerald McCarthy
I was born in Endicott, New York, the eldest son of an Italian mother and Irish–American father. I left home at age seventeen to join the Marines, served a tour of duty in Vietnam and then deserted the military. I am at work on a memoir that details this desertion and its consequences.
After I was released from military prison and civilian jail, I worked as a stone cutter, shoe factory worker and anti war-activist. Later I enrolled at SUNY Geneseo and studied with the poet Dave Kelly. Upon graduation, I attended graduate school at the University of Iowa’s Writers Workshop. I have taught writing at Attica Prison and in migrant labor camps, jails and schools, and I currently teach an ongoing series of workshops with elementary school students at Blue Rock School in West Nyack, New York as well as workshops with senior citizens at Thorpe Senior Center. In addition, I am a Professor of English at St Thomas Aquinas College in Sparkill, New York.
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