Contributors
- Contributors
Audith Arcanj
Judith Arcana’s most recent book is the poetry collection What if your mother (2005); among her prose books is Grace Paley’s Life Stories, A Literary Biography. Her poems, stories and essays have been published in journals and anthologies for more than thirty years. Her mother’s parents were Polish Jewish communists, her father’s were Russian Jewish socialists; she was born in Cleveland, where they sought the American dream. [visit juditharcana.com
Rose Bromberg
Rose Bromberg is a resident poet with the Program in Narrative Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. She serves as a poetry reader for the Bellevue Literary Review. Her poems have appeared in many literary journals. Currently, she is developing a general collection, including topics on medical humanities and Judaica. Rose is a 2007 Pushcart Prize nominee in Poetry. [End Page 94]
Claudia Blanchard
“Although my professional life has changed, from cultural anthropologist to professor of business, my passion for literature has been constant. As a child, my favorite Hanukkah gift was my monthly package of books from the All About series from which I first developed the brilliant idea of becoming a paleontologist. In addition to Bridges, my poetry has been published in Eclipse, the literary journal of Siena Heights University.”
Faith Jones
Faith Jones recently returned to her home town of Vancouver, where she is a librarian and teaches library science. She was previously head of the Mid-Manhattan Literature and Languages collection of the New York Public Library, and before that Yiddish bibliographer in NYPL’s Jewish Division. She is part of a three-person collective that translates the poetic works of Celia Dropkin into English and serves as Yiddish editor for Bridges.
Jacqueline Karp
Jacqueline Karp is British and now retired from a teaching career in the French Education Nationale. She has published two volumes of poetry, Sudden Maraschinos (Redbeck Press, 2004) and Tears of Honey and Gold (Five Leaves Publications, 2004). She is a “roving correspondent” for Agni Online and has recent work in the Northwest Review. She would dearly love to find a US publisher for her mother’s work.
Zelanie Kaye/Kantrowitm
Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz is one of the legions of Grace-lovers. She is the author of The Colors Of Jews: Racial Politics And Radical Diasporism (2007); My Jewish Face & other stories; The Issue is Power: Essays on Women, Jews, Violence and Resistance; as well as a novel seeking publication. She was the first director of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice and teaches secular Jewish studies at Queens College/CUNY. Check out her website www.diasporism.net .
Laurie E. Levinger
Laurie Levinger lives and writes in Norwich, Vermont. Her story, “My Mother’s Jewelry,” is from her as-yet-unpublished memoir, Just A Dropped Stitch. She is currently working on a book about Maya young adults who are survivors of the Guatemalan civil war.
Buff Lindau
Buff Lindau is a new-comer to writing poetry, but not to the study of literature. She earned a Ph.D. in English in 1974 with a dissertation on Feminism in the English Novel. At age 63, she is writing poems about her heritage of growing up in South Carolina in a reform Jewish household with parents of German and Eastern European roots. She and her husband raised their two sons in Burlington, Vermont, where she lives now, and works as public relations director for Saint Michael’s College. [End Page 95]
Lorine Kritzer Pergament
Lorine Kritzer Pergament’s story, “Coming of Age,” was inspired by her grandmother’s experience as a survivor of the Triangle Waist Factory fire in 1911. A 2006 graduate of the Masters in Fiction Writing program at Johns Hopkins University, Lorine lives and writes in Washington, DC and Great Diamond Island, ME. She is currently working on a novel.
Hara E. Person
Hara E. Person is the Editor in Chief of URJ Press. She received rabbinic ordination from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 1998 and an M.A. in Fine Arts from New York University/International Center of Photography. She is the co-author, with her mother, of Stories of Heaven and Earth: Bible Heroes...
