Editor Emeritus, The Literary Review
Co-Editor, Exploring Globalization: An Online Journal
Editorial Committee Member FDU Press
Editor Board Member, Web del Sol
Co-Prose Editor, Tiferet
Contributing Editor,Perigee
Emeritus Professor of English, Department of Literature, Language, Writing, and Philosophy, Fairleigh Dickinson University
Core Faculty member, FDU MFA in Creative Writing

New Story Collec    tion

Cummins' fourth short story collection,The End of the Circle, will be published by Egress Books in January 2010. It contains fourteen stories set in European cities and landscapes—from London, Paris, and Venice to the mountains of Norway, the Swiss Alps, and the English countryside.

Publications

Cummins has published more than 100 stories in such magazines as Kansas Quarterly, Other Voices, Crosscurrents, Florida Review, South Carolina Review, Green Hills Literary Lantern, Virginia Quarterly Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Arabesques, and Confrontation, and on the Internet. His earlier story collections are titled Witness, Where We Live, and Local Music. Early in his career, two novels, A Stranger to the Deed and Into Temptation, came out as paperback originals. He also has published memoirs, essays, articles, and reviews. The book version of The Literary Explorer, written with Thomas E. Kennedy, was released in 2005. A study of the impact of TV on life in the U.S., Programming Our Lives: Television and American Identity, co-written with George Gordon, was published by Praeger in 2006. Details about that book are available in the online catalogue. The book version of Writers on the Job, co-edited with Thomas E. Kennedy, was published in 2008. With Thomas E. Kenndy, he is co-publisher of Serving House Books