Joseph Mach

Joseph Mach is a 81-year-old retired CPA and tax attorney. He has taught Creative Writing at the Teaneck, NJ Senior Center since 2016. Several of his students (including his wife, Joan) have become published authors since Joe began teaching the course. Joe has also had stories published during this period.

His career included positions with law firms, CPA firms, the federal government, and two large corporations. He specialized in international and employee benefits tax law, and spent more than fifteen years giving lectures to tax symposia on those subjects. He wrote a monthly column on the taxation of employee benefits for 12 years for The Practical Accountant magazine. He was an adjunct professor of taxation at Fordham Graduate Business School for seven years.

He has been writing creatively since he was a small child.

Joe's education includes a BS in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, an MS in Accounting from the Graduate Division of the same school, a JD from Harvard Law School, and an LLM (Taxation) from New York University School of Law.

Joe moved to Teaneck in 1950, when he was five years old, and he remained a Teaneck resident until his marriage in 1968. After one year in Harvard married student housing and five years in Brooklyn. Joe and his wife moved back to Teaneck in 1974, and have lived there for the past 51 years.

He is the father of two sons, Jeffrey and Louis.