Philip Vassallo

Philip Vassallo has designed, delivered, and supervised writing seminars in corporate, government, and academic environments since 1984. He has taught writing for Cornell University, Rutgers University, Kean University, Centenary College, and Middlesex County College.

Vassallo is the author of the following books:

How to Write Fast Under Pressure

The Art of E-Mail Writing

The Art of On-the-Job Writing

Person to Person: Essays from Two Centuries

The Inwardness of the Outward Gaze: Learning and Teaching through Philosophy

Questions Asked of Dying Dreams: Four Short Plays

Like the Day I Was Born: 40 Poems, 40 Places, 40 Days

American Haiku

His Words on the Line, a column on effective writing appearing in "ETC: A Review of General Semantics" since 1992, is the seed of his popular blog of the same name. He has also published three studies on education and more than two hundred essays and poems in print and electronic sources throughout the world. He has written for numerous literary and educational publications, and he has reviewed or contributed to books by McGraw-Hill, St. Martin's Press, and Simon & Schuster. Fourteen of his short plays have been produced Off-Broadway and elsewhere, five have been published, and he has won or been a finalist in state and national playwriting competitions. For many of his clients, he has written or edited newsletters, editorials, speeches, brochures, proposals, and procedural manuals.

Vassallo holds a B.A. in English from Baruch College, an M.S. in education from Lehman College, and a doctorate in educational theory from Rutgers University.