Deborah DeNicola is a poet, editor, memoirist and college professor of Creative Writing and literature. I’ve written every since I learned to write. I think it might have helped that I had an older brother who wrote and he was like my mentor/tormentor. He’d assign me certain books to read and I just accepted him as my teacher. We subscribed to the old “Classics Illustrated” which were wonderful comic books of the Great Canon. As a kid I used to write mostly stories and didn’t s more...