Frank Finale has more than three hundred fifty poems and essays published in more than one hundred different books, journals, and magazines.

His critically acclaimed book of essays and poems, To The Shore Once More (Volume I), published in 1999, was a regional bestseller.

He teaches at East Dover Elementary School in the Toms River Regional School District in New Jersey and has done district-wide workshops for teachers on "The Effective Use of Poetry in the Classroom."

He is currently the poetry editor for the new renaissance, an international magazine of ideas and opinions, emphasizing literature and the arts.

In 1996, he co-edited, with Rich Youmans, Under A Gull's Wing (Down The Shore Publishing), the critically acclaimed anthology of poems and photographs about the Jersey Shore.

In 1983, he helped found the literary magazine, Without Halos as well as its publishing organization, The Ocean County Poets Collective. He served as editor-in-chief from 1985 through 1995.

He received a Master Of Arts Degree from Fairleigh Dickinson University in 1976.

Mr. Finale regularly gives readings throughout the Jersey Shore and New Jersey.

Born in 1942, Mr. Finale is a Pisces who has lived by the sea most of his life and currently resides with his wife, Barbara, two cats, and almost too many books in Bayville, New Jersey.