Ray Greenblatt has been an English teacher for forty years at The Church Farm School in Paoli, Pennsylvania. During that time he has had his poetry published in a variety of periodicals across America as well as in Canada, Ireland, and Italy. His work was also translated into Polish and Japanese. He has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize. He was a winner of the Mad Poets Annual Contest and the Anthony Byrne Prize for Poetry sponsored by the Irish Edition and Trinity College, Dublin.