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Listed as:

Poet

Public address:

Boston, MA

Massachusetts US

Email:

admin@deborahcecileschwartz.com

Bio:

Deborah Schwartz is the author of the collection of poetry, A Girl Could Disappear Like This, (Kattywompus Press, 2019.) Her poetry, fiction, books reviews and essays on critical and feminist pedagogy, Jew-Bu/Queer spirituality, the activism of love and other phenomena that doesn't always like to present as categorizable have been published in journals and anthologies. She lives in Somerville with her partner/wife/girlfriend, and teaches in the English Department at Bunker Hill Community College. www.deborahcecileschwartz.com [2]

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

In which languages are you fluent?:

English

Favorite authors:

Vasko Popa, Virgina Woolf, Ocean Vuong, Kim Hyesoon, James Baldwin, Eileen Myles, Ariana Reines, Dorothea Lasky, Irena Klepfisz, Rainer Maria Rilke, Zora Neale Hurston, Anne Carson, Henry James, Emily Dickinson, Frederick Douglass, Tomaz Salamun, Joanna Russ, Natalie Golderberg, Alison Bechdel, Jack Spicer, Marcel Proust, Harold Pinter, Ta Nahisi Coates, Gloria Anzaldua, Muriel Rukeyser, Audre Lorde, W.B Yeats, William Faulkner, I.B Singer...

Born in:

New Haven, CT

Connecticut

Raised in:

New Haven, CT

Connecticut

Website:

https://deborahcecileschwartz.com [3]

Prizes won:

A Girl Could Disappear Like This was chosen as a finalist by:

Carolina Wren Press; Inlandia Press; Still House Press; 42 Miles Press

A Girl Could Disappear Like This was chosen as a semi-finalist by:

Ahsahta Press; Anhinga Press; Elixir Press; Jacar Press

What I'm reading now:

Binti: The Complete Trilogy by Nnedi Okorafor

The Periodic Table by Primo Levi

The Companion Guide To the Rosh Hashanah Prayer Service by Moshe I. Sorscher

Dunce by Ruefle

Jumbalaya by Luisa Tish

Writers Retreats:

Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference

Identifies as:

Feminist

Prefers to work with:

Any