Dean Schabner has lived on the edge of a bird refuge on the shore of New York's Jamaica Bay for more than a decade. His short stories have been published in The Pushcart Prize, Witness, Northwest Review and other publications. His poems have appeared in Juniper and The Blue Nib. He is the author of the chapbook Surf-Body (Ghost City Press, 2019).

Dean Schabner is interested in is engagement with the present moment, attention to the world, and in particular with the natural world, in itself, its "suchness."  It seems to him dishonest to make kingfishers, egrets, warblers, and plovers, even running tides and the breaking ocean waves, metaphors or symbols, though that doesn't mean they're not worth contemplation.

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