Norman Waksler's collection of short stories, The Book of Regrets, is temporarily out of print, but a few copies are available from the Author.

Look for Norman's next collection, Signs of Life, published by the Black Lawrence Press, coming in August.

Biography

Norman Waksler's short stories have appeared in a number of magazines, including Ascent, Kansas Quarterly, Greensboro Review, Hanging Loose, StoryQuarterly, Madison Review, Chaffin Journal, and Bibliophilos. "Markowitz and the Gypsies", originally published in Ascent, appeared in Best American Short Stories 1980. His story "Ruthie" won the 2004 Chaffin Award for Fiction. He was the recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in Fiction for 1998.

Since college he has been a cab driver, warehouseman, bookseller, school teacher, janitor, magazine distributor, camp director, salesclerk, and most recently and for many years, librarian. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with his sociologist wife and muse, Frances Chaput Waksler, and a moderate number of dogs, birds and turtles.

Appearances

Check back soon for Norman's next appearance.

If you would like to schedule a reading please send email to the author.