Arnie Sabatelli

I have been a writer and educator since the late 1980s, teaching literature and writing at universities and colleges from The University of Maine in Presque Isle, to Kalamazoo College, to Yale University. For my last decade, I taught full time at Hamden Hall Country Day School, a small, private, K-12 school in Connecticut. I recently resigned from full-time teaching to focus on my own writing, which has appeared in a broad range of commercial and small press magazines—with publications in The Flyfish Journal, Adirondack Life, Fly Fisherman and American Baby—and essays, poems and short stories appearing in The North Dakota Quarterly, Ploughshares, The Mississippi Review, Other Voices and elsewhere.

I’m delighted to have just signed a contract with Lyons Press for my book of fly fishing essays, Two Thirds Water, to be published in the spring of 2025.

I write a bi-weekly blog-style newsletter, Journey Casts, where I offer readers creative reflections on the many things that interest me and inspire me to set pen to page. I will periodically excerpt more polished essays, stories and poems that I’ve written and hope to publish in magazines or as books. For any given post, I may write about my recent reconnection with the Adirondack Mountains, especially fly fishing its rivers and lakes, advice to writers (myself included) and educators, reflections on favorite poems, stories, novels, writers, the works of Ernest Hemingway.

I have completed ten episodes of a podcast on the works of Ernest Hemingway, Hemingway, Word for Word.

I’ve also played lead and rhythm guitars on five albums for the band Hand. You can check out our albums HERE.

Please see my coaching page if you are interested in having me give you a professional critique of your writing.