About Ron Slate

Ron Slate was born in Quincy, Massachusetts in 1950. He earned his Masters degree in creative writing from Stanford University in 1973 and did his doctoral work in American literature at the University of Wisconsin, Madison where he ran the school's poetry reading series. He founded a poetry magazine, The Chowder Review, in 1973; Floyd Skloot joined as associate editor in 1977, and the magazine published through 1988. In 1978, Ron left academia, returned with his wife and first child to Boston, and was hired by Wang Laboratories as a speechwriter. This began his business career in communications and marketing. He ran corporate communications for Stratus Computer, and served for seven years as vice president of global communications for EMC Corporation, through 2001, was chief operating officer of a biotechnology/life sciences company, and launched a social network for family caregivers, now in development. Ron lives in Milton, Massachusetts with his wife Nancy (married 36 years). They have three daughters.

The Incentive of the Maggot, a book of poems, was published by Houghton Mifflin in 2005. A second book of poems, The Great Wave, will be published by Houghton in spring 2009.