Sam Magavern

Sam Magavern is a writer and public interest lawyer. He co-directs the Partnership for the Public Good, while teaching at the University at Buffalo Law School and the Cornell University ILR School. He has written in a wide variety of genres - poetry, fiction, film, scholarly essays, and comic books - and published in many of the nation's leading literary magazines, including Poetry, The Antioch Review, and The Paris Review.

His new book is Primo Levi's Universe, a literary biography which has been hailed as "elegant," "remarkable," and "exemplary." His web site is www.sammagavern.com.