As a student at New York University, E.M. Schorb published numerous poems in small journals. Later, he attended the prestigious Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre and for a time pursued a career as an actor, all the while accumulating publishing credits for his first collection of poetry, The Poor Boy and Other Poems, in the Living Poets Series of Dragons Teeth Press. Another collection followed and, in 1998, his third collection, Murderers Day, was awarded the Verna Emery Poetry Prize and published by Purdue University Press. Another collection, Time and Fevers, New and Selected Poems, published by Author House, won both the Eric Hoffer Award for Poetry and the Writers Digest Self-Published Book Award for Poetry. He has published three other novels, two from Denlingers Publishers, Ltd., Scenario for Scorsese and Paradise Square, which won the Grand Prize for Fiction at the first International eBook Award celebration at the Frankfurt Book Fair, and a third from Cherokee McGhee Publishers, Fortune Island. He is currently gathering his published stories for a collection, tentatively titled Stories, Etc. A former New Yorker, he now resides in North Carolina, where he lives with his wife, Patricia, continues to write, and spends his free time painting, for which he has also won several awards.