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About
my essay "The Head Clown," Jerry Waxler writes: "The author has crafted a brash, luxurious tale that worked the magic all good stories are supposed to do . . . by focusing
tightly on each moment he brought me into his world, endowing scenes with color and character, creating depth of emotion and
variety of insight. Toner's exquisite attention on small details provided me with so much pleasure I was sorry to see it end."
Please scroll down to find a link to "The Head Clown."
Behind every accomplishment I list on
these pages stands a cadre without whom I would have achieved nothing. Thank you to all mentioned, and unmentioned, on this
site.
I'm still in the literary preseason, but since going totally blind in 1995 I have published ten short stories,
have won or been a finalist in fifteen national and regional writing competitions in literary and genre categories, and am
featured in Web Del Sol's "Best of the Literary Journals."
As a board member of the Philadelphia Writers
Conference, I was named creator and chair of its Free Forums, which take place at Drexel University. I have also served as
the PWC's vice president and workshops chair
I have taught at the Ocean City, NJ, Arts Center and have been a
public speaker at schools, retirement centers and Lions clubs in MO, NJ and PA about living and working with blindness. I
have earned my MFA from Fairleigh Dickinson University in 2006, and am profoundly thankful to my mentors. I have also served
on the reading staff of The Literary Review.
I have the stellar good fortune to live with my love, virtuoso writer
Robin Parks on the Philadelphia Main Line.
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