Theo Greenblatt writes both fiction and literary nonfiction. She holds an AS in Fashion Merchandising from Chamberlayne Junior College c. 1978 and, after several interesting diversions (punk rock zealot, kibbutznik, retail wizard, single parent), completed a BA in English from Roger Williams University,  and an MA and PhD from the University of Rhode Island, focusing in Rhetoric and Composition and Creative Nonfiction respectively. For over 20 years, Theo taught composition to aspiring officer candidates at the US Naval Academy Preparatory School, and now works as a victim advocate for the Navy’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Response program.
 
While a book-length memoir on her counterculture adolescence awaits the love and attention of just the right press, her work appears in The Columbia Review, The Normal School Online, Tikkun Magazine, Harvard Review, two anthologies of women's fiction, and many other esteemed venues. Theo is a previous winner of The London Magazine's Short Story Competition (see photo above), and her work has been shortlisted for Arts & Letters’ Unclassifiables Contest, Autumn House Press’s Full Length Fiction Contest, Eyewear Publishing’s International Beverly Prize for Literature, and the St. Lawrence Book Award. At URI she won numerous awards in fiction, nonfiction, and scholarly writing; her short memoir, “True But Incomplete,” in The Flexible Persona, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and her flash fiction, “We Don’t Promise You a Rose Garden” is a Best of the Net nominee. She is currently working on a second memoir based on her years as a member of an Israeli kibbutz in the 1980s. 

Theo lives in Newport, RI, with a cranky old cat named Dexter. She has three adult children whom she will always consider her best work.