Harry Bauld

For more, visit: harrybauld.com As a former college admissions officer at Columbia University and Brown University, and as a high school English teacher for many years, Harry Bauld has given countless presentations and workshops for students, parents and teachers all over the country. His book, "On Writing the College Application Essay," is the classic guide in the field, "the best essay book yet written," according to Dave Berry and David Hawsey in Princeton Review's "Americas Elite Colleges: The Smart Buyer's Guide." Also an award winning poet, his work has appeared in many publications and anthologies in the U.S. as well as Ireland and Scotland. He was selected by Matthew Dickman for inclusion in the University of Virginia's annual anthology, Best New Poets (2012), and his poems have been reprinted on both Verse Daily and Poetry Daily and been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. "The Uncorrected Eye," his recent collection of poems published by Passager Books (passagerbooks.com) is a collection of Bauld's observations on fatherhood, marriage, fading youth, Jazz, magic, Basquiat, religion,... a "jazz take on the joy and pain of contemporary life" (Jo Sarzotti).