Steven Schrader is a lifelong New Yorker. Born in Washington Heights in 1935, he moved with his family to the Upper West Side at the age of fourteen, and never left. Over the years, he has been a public-school teacher, a city employee (the Welfare Department, the New York City Youth Board), a garment salesman, and the publisher of Cane Hill Press. For ten years he was the director of Teachers & Writers Collaborative. His five books of autobiographical stories include three from Hanging Loose Press: What We Deserved, Threads and Arriving at Work. His work has been included in several anthologies and broadcast on NPR’s Selected Shorts. He is married to the documentary filmmaker Lucy Kostelanetz.
Hanging Loose Authors
Steven Schrader
Books by Steven Schrader
Threads
What We Deserved: Stories From a New York Life
Arriving at Work and Other Stories
From loose pages to issue 119 of our magazine, an anthology of over 100 HLP poets, over a decade of the Loose Award for translated works, the Founders prize for first book in its third year, and a bunch of great books in the works, we couldn’t have come this far without you.