Eli Goldblatt is Professor Emeritus of English at Temple University and former director of New City Writing, an institute focused on community-related literacy projects in North Philadelphia. He earned his PhD in composition and rhetoric at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His scholarly books include Literacy as Conversation:Learning Networks in Philadelphia and Arkansas (written with David Jolliffe); Writing Home: A Literacy Autobiography ; and Because We Live Here: Sponsoring Literacy Beyond the College Curriculum , which won the 2008 National Council of Writing Program Administrators' Best Book Award. He has won best essay of the year awards from both College Composition andCommunications and College English . The 2015 Conference on Community Writing presented him with the Outstanding Scholar Award. Goldblatt's poems have appeared since 1973 in small literary journals such as Hambone , 6ix , Louisiana Review , and Another Chicago Magazine . His forthcoming poetry collection is From Away and earlier books include For Instance , Sessions 1-62 , Speech Acts , and Without a Trace . His two books for children are Leo Loves Round and Lissa and the Moon's Sheep .