Charles Coté has studied with some of the best poets and poetry teachers in the country (Stephen Dobyns, Thomas Lux, Gregory Orr, Thom Ward, and Kim Addonizio) and brings a wealth of experience to the Writers & Books classroom on poetic craft. Publication credits include The Cortland Review, Upstreet, Boston Literary Magazine, ByLine, Connecticut River Review, Free Lunch, HazMat Review, and Lake Affect Magazine, and a chapbook, Flying for the Window (2008), elegies about his son’s illness and death. He is a clinical social worker in private practice.