Location: Australia
Member Since: Feb. 07, 2011

Darren Stein


Biography

Darren Stein is an Australian artist and poet. Born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1973, Stein worked in the townships and squatter camps around Johannesburg and Soweto during the transition to democracy in the early 1990’s. His fields included adult literacy, voter education, election monitoring, and subsequently Police reform which worked towards building reconciliation between local community groups and the Post-Apartheid police forces. After suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder caused by his exposure to the violence of the period, he immigrated to Sydney, Australia. His poems have appeared in various anthologies, including Over the Rainbow (1996), The Liquid Mirror (1998), An Endless Place (1999), and Storage Space: A collection of contemporary poetry (2008).

Where to find Darren Stein online

Website: http://www.redbubble.com/people/darrikk
Facebook: Facebook profile
Blog: http://darrikk.blogspot.com/

Where to buy in print

http://www.amazon.com/Storage-Space-Darren-Stein/dp/1436383765/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1234430297&sr=1-1

Books

Storage Space: A collection of contemporary poetry    by Darren Stein
Price: Free! 6780 words. Published on March 6, 2011. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review)
Darren Stein worked in the townships and squatter camps around Johannesburg and Soweto from 1992-1996. His fields included adult literacy, voter education and community policing. His poetry deals with the emotional turmoil of his years in the townships, the psychological toll that this took upon him, and his subsequent immigration to Australia. His salvation is the joy of parenthood and marriage.
The Rabbi and the Vampire (A Short Story)    by Darren Stein
Price: Free! 3560 words. Published on February 28, 2011. Fiction.
(5.00 from 2 reviews)
Although Vampires are found in many cultures, this is a short story about the Jewish origins of the Vampire legend as found in the Torah and Talmud which has entered into literature. The information in this regard is factual, as was the treatment of the Jews I describe in the late Middle Ages, just before the advent of the European Enlightenment in the early 1800's.

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