Authors & Editors
Joseph D. Collea Jr., B.A.’69, M.A.’74, C.A.S.’84, is the author of New York and the Lincoln Specials: The President’s Pre-Inaugural and Funeral Trains Cross the Empire State. The book is published by McFarland.
Richard Morgan, B.S.’69, published My Lighthouse Key. This is Morgan’s sixth book of poetry.
Marcia Buebel, B.A.’70, coauthored The Yoga-CBT Workbook for Anxiety under the pen name Dr. Manjit Khalsa.
Paula Camardella Twomey, B.A.’70, published three cultural readers for Level I and Level II secondary students: Lecturas culturales de España, Lecturas culturales de México, and Lecturas culturales de Argentina. Twomey teaches Spanish at Ithaca College.
Donna White-Davis, B.A.’70, is the author of several novels and works of historical fiction, including the Who Were the Remingtons? series and the photo essay New York State Empire Games.
Gail Shanley Corso, M.A.’72, is the editor and co-author of Alice McDermott’s Fiction: Voice, Memory, Trauma, and Lies, published by Peter Lang.
Sharon Elswit, M.L.S.’77, is the author of The Latin American Story Finder: A Guide to 470 Tales from Mexico, Central America and South America, Listing Subjects and Sources.
Mike Piekarski, B.A.’77, is the editor of the science-fiction novel The Slave Planet; Ram Chugh’s memoir Against All Odds; and Chugh’s autobiography Living to Learn and Learning to Live. A former sports editor of the Albany Student Press, Piekarski resides in Latham, N.Y.
Johannes Froebel-Parker, B.A.’79, M.A.’82, M.S.’85, is the author of Anastasia Again: The Hidden Secret of the Romanovs.
David Zweibel, B.A.’80, is the author of Customer Service: A One-Act Play. He lives in Boca Raton, Fla.
James A. Zollar, D.A.’84, is the author of a book of poems, Ash & Embers, published by Cascade Books. Zollar is the author of two other books, Living on the Flood Plain and Simple Clutter.
The second book from Marc Lichtenfeld, B.A.’89, You Don’t Have to Drive an Uber in Retirement: How to Maintain Your Lifestyle without Getting a Job or Cutting Corners, was recently published by John Wiley & Sons.
Brenda Kirkwood, M.P.H.’01, is the co-author of Public Health 101: Improving Community Health, Third Edition. She is a clinical associate professor at UAlbany’s School of Public Health.
Christine Maier, M.A.’06, published Blue Sky Morning. Maier resides on Long Island.
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, B.A.’13, is the author of Friday Black, published by Mariner Books.