Jan Heller Levi:
Jan Heller Levi was born in New York City. For her collection of poems Once I Gazed at You in Wonder (1999) she received the Walt Whitman Award of The Academy of American Poets. She is also author of the collection Skyspeak (2005), editor of A Muriel Rukeyser Reader (1994), and co-editor of Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan (2005). Jan Heller Levi teaches poetry at Hunter College. She lives in New York City, and in St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Jan Heller Levi wurde in New York geboren. Für ihre Gedichtsammlung Once I Gazed at You in Wonder (1999) erhielt sie den Walt-Whitman-Preis der Academy of American Poets. Ihr zweiter Gedichtband, Skyspeak, erschien 2005. Sie hat verschiedene Werke der amerikanischen Dichterin Muriel Rukeyser veröffentlicht, darunter A Muriel Rukeyser Reader (1994), und ist Mitherausgeberin der Gedichtsammlung Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan (2005). Jan Heller Levi lebt in New York City, wo sie am Hunter College Poetik lehrt, und in St. Gallen.