Gerry LaFemina has taught at Kirtland Community College. West Virginia University, Wheeling Jesuit University, Sarah Lawrence College, and currently at Frostburg State University and in the Carlow University low-residency MFA Program. At Kirtland, he developed the country's first Associate in Fine Arts Program in the country, and at Frostburg he developed the University's Center for Literary Arts. His writing about pedagogy has appeared in The Writer's Chronicle, in Text: the Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs, and in Pedagogy. He's served on the Board of Directors of the AWP and as an external evaluator of several Creative Writing Programs. His textbook, Composing Poetry: a Guide to Writing Poems and Thinking Lyrically comes out later this year.