Jan Steckel is a retired physician, a bisexual and disability rights activist, and a poet and writer.
Her Mixing Tracks (Gertrude Press, 2009) won the Gertrude Press fiction chapbook award for LGBT writers. Her chapbook The Underwater Hospital (Zeitgeist Press, 2006) won a Rainbow Award for lesbian and bisexual poetry. Her writing has appeared in Scholastic Magazine, Yale Medicine, Bellevue Literary Review, and elsewhere. Her first full-length poetry book, The Horizontal Poet, is forthcoming from Zeitgeist Press. Her writing has won numerous awards and has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize. Find out more at her website. ---------
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www.jansteckel.com.