Jefferson Singer is the Faulk Foundation Professor of Psychology at Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut, and a clinical psychologist with a psychotherapy practice in West Hartford, CT. He graduated with honors from Amherst College with a double major in psychology and English, receiving both the Academy of American Poets Prize and a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. After earning a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Yale University and conducting a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of California-San Francisco, he began his career in the psychology department of Connecticut College. Over the next 37 years, he published 7 books in the fields of personality, psychotherapy, and autobiographical memory and over 130 articles, chapters, and reviews. A fellow of the American Psychological Association, he was a recipient of a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award, as well as the Henry A. Murray Award and the Theodore H. Sarbin Award from the American Psychological Association for his research on the narrative study of lives, which includes a full-length psychobiography of the author, Robert Louis Stevenson (The Proper Pirate, Oxford University Press). He also served as Dean of the College at Connecticut College for six years. More information about his research on personality and memory is available at http://www.self-definingmemories.com/.
In recent years, he has increasingly devoted himself to writing poetry and has had poems appear in Sixfold, The Raven’s Perch, Orenaug Mountain Poetry Journal, the Medical Literary Messenger, and the Winter Glimmerings anthology. He is actively involved in two writers’ groups and gives readings at local venues. This is his first book of poetry.