Stephen Lewandowski has published fourteen books of poetry, and his poems and essays have appeared in regional and national environmental and literary journals and anthologies. He was student of poet Howard Nemerov, a graduate assistant to philosophical essayist William Gass and later studied with folklorist Louis Jones (Things That Go Bump in the Night).Lewandowski was employed in environmental conservation work, especially watershed protection, for over forty years. He is now retired. His most recent books of poetry are Under Foot from May Apple Press in Woodstock, NY (2014), Last Settler in the Finger Lakes from Foothills Publishing in Avoca, NY (2015) and I Swear from Bullhead Books of Ashland, KY (2018). His Hard Work in Low Places will be published by Tigers Bark Press of Rochester, NY in 2020.