elan barnehama

My first novel, Finding Bluefield, is set against a background of the 1960's, it's the story of Nicky and Barbara’s search for love and family during a time when relationships like theirs were mostly hidden and often dangerous.

I'm currently finishing a new novel set in NYC during the final years of the Vietnam War and narrated by the son of holocaust survivors who is obsessed with finding an escape route for when the US rounds up its Jews, while navigating high school and the impending Vietnam War draft lottery.

I'm a New Yorker by default, a tortured Mets fan by geography. A commenter on this and that in the Huffington Post and elsewhere. Chronically curious, noisy brain and I brake for art. I've taught college, led community-based writing workshops, taught at-risk youth, wrote for a couple of universities, coached varsity baseball, was radio news guy, and a not very good short-order cook.