Josef Ferri
Email: josefferri95@gmail.com
I’m a lifelong resident of Buffalo, NY and have worn many hats in my life from steel worker, factory worker, house painter, investment real estate salesperson, advertising executive, teacher and author. But one of the most rewarding has been as a teacher. I taught seven years at the University of Buffalo in the English and Theater departments, and for the last nine years (and counting) in the Buffalo school system working with grammar school children, many of whom are immigrant kids from many other countries.
My travels have taken me to numerous times to the Caribbean area, 34 times to Barbados among other places as well. Additionally, my travels have also taken me to Western Europe over twenty times, especially to Deia, Mallorca seventeen times where I worked with Beryl Graves, widow of the poet and novelist Robert Graves. Lucia Graves, daughter of Robert Graves and herself an excellent author, wrote the cover snipe on my first novel, Trying to Catch the Wind.
Besides that novel, I’ve published Tripping Across 1969, and presently am in the revision stage of a new novel, yet to be titled. I’ve also begun working on a new autobiographical novel with the working title of Street Games.
I’ve done many book signings both locally and elsewhere. Perhaps the most rewarding one was in Baltimore, Md. at the invitation of publisher Joslyn Wolfe of Focus on Women Magazine. She asked and I let them sell digital copies of Trying to Catch the Wind. Some of the proceeds were donated to a defense fund for women in Afghanistan.
Many other book signings have been at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts (site of the original 1969 Woodstock Music & Art Fair) one signing was with Michael Lang who along with Artie Kornfeld, Joel Rosenman and John Roberts were responsible for making Woodstock happen in 1969. Another was with eight authors at the 45th anniversary site of the festival which I helped organize in 2014. One of the other authors at the event was Barry Z Levine whose book, The Woodstock Storybook featured many of his great images that he captured as a photographer at the original Woodstock in 1969.
About the Author
Josef Ferri
Email: josefferri95@gmail.com
I’m a lifelong resident of Buffalo, NY and have worn many hats in my life from steel worker, factory worker, house painter, investment real estate salesperson, advertising executive, teacher and author. But one of the most rewarding has been as a teacher. I taught seven years at the University of Buffalo in the English and Theater departments, and for the last nine years (and counting) in the Buffalo school system working with grammar school children, many of whom are immigrant kids from many other countries.
My travels have taken me to numerous times to the Caribbean area, 34 times to Barbados among other places as well. Additionally, my travels have also taken me to Western Europe over twenty times, especially to Deia, Mallorca seventeen times where I worked with Beryl Graves, widow of the poet and novelist Robert Graves. Lucia Graves, daughter of Robert Graves and herself an excellent author, wrote the cover snipe on my first novel, Trying to Catch the Wind.
Besides that novel, I’ve published Tripping Across 1969, and presently am in the revision stage of a new novel, yet to be titled. I’ve also begun working on a new autobiographical novel with the working title of Street Games.
I’ve done many book signings both locally and elsewhere. Perhaps the most rewarding one was in Baltimore, Md. at the invitation of publisher Joslyn Wolfe of Focus on Women Magazine. She asked and I let them sell digital copies of Trying to Catch the Wind. Some of the proceeds were donated to a defense fund for women in Afghanistan.
Many other book signings have been at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts (site of the original 1969 Woodstock Music & Art Fair) one signing was with Michael Lang who along with Artie Kornfeld, Joel Rosenman and John Roberts were responsible for making Woodstock happen in 1969. Another was with eight authors at the 45th anniversary site of the festival which I helped organize in 2014. One of the other authors at the event was Barry Z Levine whose book, The Woodstock Storybook featured many of his great images that he captured as a photographer at the original Woodstock in 1969.