Jay Amberg is the author of ten books. He received a BA from Georgetown University and a PhD from Northwestern University. He has taught high school and college students since 1972.With Amika Press, Amberg has published Cycle, America's Fool, Whale Song, and compiled 52 Poems for Men. Cycle, a novel giving unique voice to the world's environmental crisis, is the winner of a 2013 Independent Publisher Living Now Book Award. Prior to Amika Press, Amberg published thriller novels Doubloon (Forge), Blackbird Singing (Forge) and Deep Gold (Warner Books).Among his books on teaching are School Smarts and The Study Skills Handbook, both published by Good Year. Amberg wrote The Creative Writing Handbook (Good Year) with Mark Henry Larson and Verbal Review and Workbook for the SAT (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich) with Robert S Boone.