Grub STREET Writers is the reason I've stayed in Boston. I STARTED TEACHING for Grub BACK in 1997, when founder Eve Bridburg, a Boston University M.A. alumna, as I am, kindly GAVE me my first job out of grad school.

I am pleased now that I have LIVED in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, THOUGH it hasn't been very comfortable. Taken TOGETHER, their limitations cancel each other out and I have seen the world more kindly and more HONESTLY.