Ron Kostar has been a professor and teacher but now retires in the woods and plays the clarinet in "The Hot Taters," a Dixieland band. He reads and performs regularly and has published poems in several small magazines including US 1, City Magazine, For Here or to Go, In the Mail, The Princeton Review, and The Kelsey Review, and he has shown his collages and paintings in a number of group and collaborative art Shows. He has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Rutgers University.