Joel Edward Stein

Joel was a staff writer for CTB McGraw-Hill. Several of his nonfiction articles as well as his stories appeared in magazines such as BLACK BELT, INSIDE KUNG FU, and CRICKET.Joel's book, THE PIGEON MAN, (Pants On Fire Press, 2015), was a finalist for the NEXT GENERATION INDIE BOOK AWARD. It was added to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Library and is part of the book collection at Yad Vashem Memorial in JerusalemA HANUKKAH WITH MAZEL (Lerner Books Group, Kar-Ben Publishing, 2016), received outstanding reviews in Kirkus, Booklist, and Publisher's Weekly. It was featured on the cover of THE HORNBOOK (Dec, 2016).He currently lives in Florida with his wife, his son, two birds, and a tortoise.