Composite Sketches

Lou Orfanella believes that writing is a strip-mining process in which physical, emotional, and spiritual truths are unearthed as one digs deeper and deeper into one's storehouse of memories and experiences. He is a New York based teacher and writer who holds degrees from Columbia University and Fordham University. He teaches at Western Connecticut State University and in the Valhalla, New York school district. His work has appeared nationally and regionally in such publications as Teacher Magazine, New York Teacher, English Journal, College Bound, Discoveries, The New York Daily News, World Hunger Year Magazine, WordWrights!, The Danbury News-Times, and many others.Lou Orfanella is the author of 'Composite Sketches', published 2004 under ISBN 9780975338810 and ISBN 0975338811.