PAUL GENEGA has published six chapbooks and six full-length collections, four with Salmon. His work has appeared in journals, anthologies and magazines for over forty years, winning awards from The Nation, New York Quarterly and The Literary Review, and an individual fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Perhaps, a portfolio of poems with etchings by Aaron Fink, is in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Harvard Museums, among others. His poem "The Self-Made Man and the Moon" was turned into a robotic theater piece by Barry Brian Werger at the robotics lab at the University of Southern California and toured the US and abroad. As part of ARTS By the People’s Moving Words project, "Pharaoh" was made into an animation by Omar Mizrah and premiered at the Animix Festival in Tel Aviv in 2018. His theater piece Paging Doctor Faustus, co-authored with Patricia Lee Stotter, was performed at the FiveMyles Gallery in Brooklyn in April 2020. Earlier, the Stotter/Genega musical Haven’t We Met? was presented at The Writers Theatre in New York as part of its Developing Projects Festival. Songs from that show were reprised online as Once Upon a Happily Ever After in 2022 by Studio Theater in Exile. He has worked as full-time research assistant to the co-editors of The Jackson Pollock Catalogue Raisonné and as Contributing Editor of The Columbia Encyclopedia. In 2014, upon the death of Antje Katcher, founding editor of Three Mile Harbor Press, he assumed responsibility for the press and inaugurated an annual poetry prize. Currently, he is Professor Emeritus at Bloomfield College, New Jersey, where he founded the creative writing program, served as Chair of Humanities, and taught literature and writing for thirty years. He lives with his husband Jim and their Welsh springer spaniel Chance at the edge of the majestic Hudson in Stuyvesant, New York.
