Stephen Lewandowski

Stephen Lewandowski has published twelve small books of poetry, and his poems and essays have appeared in regional and national environmental and literary journals and anthologies.

He is a graduate of Hamilton College who later did graduate work with Louis Jones in the Cooperstown Graduate Programs in American Folk Culture and with Howard Nemerov and William Gass at Washington University in St. Louis.

Lewandowski has worked as an environmental educator and consultant in the western Finger Lakes for thirty-five years. He is a founder of the Coalition for Hemlock and Canadice Lakes and the Canandaigua Lake Watershed Task Force. More recently he has been employed as the Program Director of the Lake Ontario Coastal Initiative.

While continuing to write, he has received environmental achievement awards from the Finger Lakes Community College, Canandaigua Lake Pure Waters, Livingston County Environmental Management Council, Western New York Chapter of The Nature Conservancy, and the Finger Lakes Land Trust.

His O Lucky One was published by Foothills Publishing of Kanona, NY in 2010.