These days Steve wears his “Nudging the Imagination” hat most often, conducting interactive and collaborative writing workshops in classrooms and virtually around the country, engaging K-8 students in the writing process. He has been nudging students’ imaginations since 1985.

 

Steve, or “Papa Stevie” as he is known in the classroom, also offers Professional Development sessions, parent-student story-writing workshops, author visits and guest speaking presentations for school assemblies as “Nudging the Imagination.”

 

But that’s just one of his “hats.”

 

Steve also was Executive Director of Rhode Island Write on Sports, a nonprofit organization that conducts summer sports writing camps for under-served middle school students. He was an Adjunct Writing Professor, instructing college freshmen.

 

He was a sports writer for the Providence (RI) Journal, covering the Boston Red Sox on a daily basis for the final 22 years of his 33-year career with the newspaper before retiring in 2008 and eventually writing freelance stories for ESPN’s Boston website.

 

Steve’s also an award-winning children’s author, a youth and high school baseball coach, an MVP on his Columbia University baseball team, an avid gardener and a devoted family man.