A Jay Adler

A. Jay Adler, a native New Yorker who lives in Los Angeles, is a writer, editor, and professor of English. He writes in all genres: poetry, fiction, drama, essay, screenwriting, creative non-fiction, narrative journalism, film criticism, and political & cultural commentary. He earned M.A. and M. Phil degrees in English literature from Columbia University and now teaches at Queens College, CUNY. Grandson and son to working-class Jewish immigrants from Ukraine, Adler grew up in the Queens, NY of Eisenhower’s America, relished and survived the Sixties, and came of age in the edgy, dystopian New York City of the 1970s. He shocked no one more than himself by becoming successful in business, so at a height of his success, feeling the existential inauthenticity of which critical life choices are made, he gave it up to refocus on his love of literature and writing. Preoccupying themes include time and memory, the crisis of personal identity, and the drama of ordinary lives situated in history.