Greg Masters was born in Passaic, New Jersey and has lived in the East Village of Manhattan for the past 40 years. In addition to his art writing for various publications, he was an editor of the Poetry Project Newsletter; was co-editor, with Michael Scholnick and Gary Lenhart, of Mag City, a poetry magazine; was co-editor (with Sheila Keenan), of HOWL! Souvenir Book (FEVA, 2003); and is publisher of Crony Books. His poetry books include In the Air (1978) and My Women and Men, Part 2 (1980). He is the author of Stumbling into Modernity: Isaac Bashevis Singer's Cling to Tradition (Crony Books, 2012), and At Maureen's (with Bernadette Mayer, Crony Books, 2013).