Memoir of English Professor Published

Memoir of SUNY Rockland Community College English Professor Published in March

Suffern, NY - The memoir of Reamy Jansen, Professor of English at SUNY Rockland Community College, was published in March by Hamilton Stone Editions.

Jansen’s book, "Available Light, Recollections and Reflections of a Son," encompasses all family relationships—fathers and sons, mothers and sons, brothers, husbands and wives, and covers topics such as generations and mortality.

Reamy Jansen of Highland Falls has been teaching English at the College since 1971 and is the advisor to RCC’s award-winning student magazine, Impulse. He is the Creative Nonfiction Editor of The Bloomsbury Review and Hamilton Stone Review and past Vice President of the National Book Critics Circle. An essayist, poet, and critic, he has published work in The Washington Post, 32 Poems, Fugue, The Evansville Review, Oasis, The Literary Review, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, American Book Review, LaPetiteZine, Ducky.com, and many others. Eight of his essays have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

Jansen is recipient of the 2003 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Creativity and Scholarship and was the 2000 recipient of the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. He has held residencies at Yaddo, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Kunstlerhaus in Schwandorf, Germany, New York Mills Creative Arts, and Writers & Books.

Jansen is married to Leslie Kingseed, adjunct faculty, RCC Science Department and has two son, Paul, 27, and Gabriel, 24. The book is dedicated to his sons and parents.

For more information, contact Reamy Jansen, Professor, English, at 845-574-4344, reamyjj@gmail.com  or visit: http://www.hamiltonstone.org

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