Ernie Brill writes fiction and poetry about everyday people. His collection I Looked Over Jordan and Other Stories explores race and class among hospital workers. The actress Ruby Dee purchased, adapted, and performed one of the stories, “Crazy Hattie Enters Ice Age,” for a PBS TV series. Brill won a New York State Council for the Arts Fiction Grant. Mr. Brill received his BA and MA in English from San Francisco State University. Brill has published fiction, poetry, and essays widely in the US and Canada (River Styx, Other Voices, Z, U. of Minnesota Press, Prentice Hall Ontario Canada). His favorite writers include Virginia Woolf, Richard Wright, Mahmoud Darwish, Hyseoon Kim, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sterling A. Brown, and Pablo Neruda.
