Jan Zlotnik Schmidt is a SUNY Distinguished Professor of English at SUNY New Paltz, where she teaches composition, creative writing,
American and Women’s Literature, creative nonfiction, memoir, and Holocaust literature courses. Her work has appeared in The Cream City Review, Kansas Quarterly, The Alaska Quarterly Review, Home Planet News, Phoebe, Black Buzzard Review, The Chiron Review, and Wind. Her work also has been nominated for the Pushcart Press Prize Series. She’s had two volumes of poetry published by the Edwin Mellen Press (We Speak in Tongues, 1991; She had this memory, 2000). Recently a chapbook, The Earth Was Still, was published by Finishing Line Press.---------
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