Endless Staircase

by Sandy McIntosh

A collection of original poetry, often with prose commentary

72 pages, Paperback

Published April 1, 1991

About the author

Sandy McIntosh was born in Rockville Centre, New York, and received a BA from Southampton College, an MFA from Columbia University and a doctorate from the Union Graduate. After working with children for eight years as a writer in the schools he completed a study of writers who taught in the program and how their work with children affected their own writing. The study, The Poets in the Poets-in-the Schools was published by the University of Minnesota. He alternated teaching creative writing at Southampton College and Hofstra University with publishing nonfiction works, such as Firing Back (John Wiley 1997), and computer software, such as Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing! (Electronic Arts, 1986). He contributes journalism, poetry, and opinion columns to The New York Times, The Daily Beast, The New York Daily News, Newsday, The Nation, The Wall Street Journal, American Book Review, and elsewhere. He was also editor and publisher of Wok Talk, a Chinese cooking bi-monthly and the author and editor of several Chinese cook books.

His first collection of poetry, Earth Works, was published by Southampton College in 1970, the year he graduated. He has since published 11 collections of poetry, four prose volumes and three computer software programs.

His original poetry in a screenplay won the Silver Medal in the Film Festival of the Americas. The New York Times’ published his poem “Cemetery Chess,” and an excerpt of his collaboration with Denise Duhamel appears in The Best American Poetry.

From 1990 to 2000 he was chairman of the Distinguished Poetry Series at Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York.

He was managing editor of Long Island University’s national literary journal, Confrontation, for more than a decade, and is publisher of Marsh Hawk Press.