Roslyn Bernstein

Born in Brooklyn, Roslyn Bernstein moved to Long Beach, New York in 1948. She was raised in the West End of town, a short walking distance from the city’s boardwalk, which runs for two miles along the Atlantic Ocean side of this barrier island. A poet and journalist, she has been a professor of Journalism and Creative Writing at Baruch College, CUNY, since 1974. Roslyn Bernstein earned a BA at Brandeis University and a MA and Ph.D. at New York University. She has served as the director of the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program at Baruch College since it was established in 1998. A published journalist, Bernstein is the author of two books, Boardwalk Stories (Blue Eft Press ), a collection of 14-linked tales that includes “Dog Tags,” published in the summer of 2009, and Illegal Living: 80 Wooster Street and the Evolution of SoHo, a non fiction-book due out on May 29, 2010.