David K. Leff is an award winning essayist, Pushcart Prize nominated poet and former deputy commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection. He is a member of the Collinsville Historic District Commission and was chairman for about two decades. David has been a Boy Scout merit badge counselor and was a volunteer firefighter for 26 years. He is the Canton, Connecticut poet laureate, deputy town historian, and the town meeting moderator. In 2016 and 2017 he served as poet-in-residence for the New England National Scenic Trail (NET), the first ever such designation for any of the country's eleven such trails established by an act of Congress.
The author of six nonfiction books, three volumes of poetry, and two novels in verse, David has read his work, given book talks, and lectured on literary, historical and environmental topics throughout Connecticut and beyond. He has served on the board of directors of the Riverwood Poetry Series, Inc. the Connecticut Forest and Park Association, and the Maple Syrup Producers Association of Connecticut. He is a member of the board of trustees of Great Mountain Forest in Norfolk, Connecticut, a non-profit working forest and conservation education organization, and is on the Collections Steering Committee of the Connecticut Historical Society. David has served as the book review editor of Connecticut Woodlands, the quarterly magazine of the Connecticut Forest & Park Association and is now the poetry editor. His papers are located at the Special Collections and University Archives, UMass/Amherst http://scua.library.umass.edu/umarmot/?s=leff
Read David's full biography here.
Check out this profile of David by Eric Lehman that appeared in The Wayfarer: http://thewayfarer.homeboundpublications.com/a-wayfarer-david-k-leff/
