Steven Schrader

Steven Schrader is a lifelong New Yorker. Born in Washington Heights in 1935, he moved with his family to the Upper West Side at the age of fourteen, and never left. Over the years, he has been a public-school teacher, a city employee (the WelfareDepartment, the New York City Youth Board), a garment salesman, and the publisher of Cane Hill Press. For ten years he was the director of Teachers & Writers Collaborative. His five books of autobiographical stories include three from Hanging Loose Press: What We Deserved, Threads and Arriving at Work. His work has been included in several anthologies and broadcast on NPR's Selected Shorts. He is married to the documentary filmmaker Lucy Kostelanetz.