Bio
BRETT BERK, M.S., Ed., worked as a classroom teacher and a pre-school director, and now acts as a research consultant to some of the world’s biggest producers of kids’ media, toys, and consumer products. He’s also a fiction writing Instructor at The New School whose short stories have appeared in journals including Tin House, FICTION, and The Mississippi Review. He is the author of The Gay Uncle’s Guide to Parenting and the weekly Vanity Fair.com column Stick Shift and is completing his first novel and a collection of short stories. He and his boyfriend of eighteen years divide their time between New York City and a house in upstate New York.