About Me
Poet, experimentalist, romantic, word-person, language gal, Yiddishist, trying to clean up her karma... sensitive, generous to a fault, loving, disarming (and rearming).On an equally serious note:
I am a university professor, and my book "Recovering 'Yiddishland'" was published in January (08) by Syracuse University Press. It's a mixture of literary criticism, research, and memoir (you'll love it!).
I spent July 2007 as one of the writers-in-residence at the Millay Colony for the Arts, on poet Edna's old estate on the New York side of the Berkshires, working on what I hope will eventually take shape as my next book: "Forgetting Jerusalem," a hybrid of memoir, creative nonfiction, research, and poetry, examining the relationship American Jews have with their "homelands": Israel, Poland, and New York City. In September 08 I was a writer-in-residence at Hawthornden Castle, Lasswade, Scotland, where I did further work on this project.
