Janlori Goldman

Janlori Goldman is a poet, teacher and activist. Bread from a Stranger’s Oven, her first full-length poetry collection, is published by White Pine Press (2017). Her chapbook "Akhmatova’s Egg" was published by Toadlily Press. Gerald Stern chose her poem ‘At the Cubbyhole Bar’ for the 2012 Raynes Prize.

Goldman is a widely published poet, and her book reviews and essays on art and poetry have appeared in numerous publications, including the forthcoming ‘The Poetry in Barbara Hammer’s Films,” due out in January 2018.

Goldman co-founded "The Wide Shore: A Journal of Global Women’s Poetry," www.thewideshore.org. She worked with Paris Press on the first publication of Virginia Woolf's "On Being Ill" with her mother, Julia Stephen's "Notes from Sick Rooms." She is a professor of human rights and public health in New York, and volunteers as a writing mentor at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She received an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College.