Jan Clausen

Jan Clausen is a poet, fiction writer, and essayist whose books include the novels Sinking, Stealing and The Prosperine Papers; the poetry collections From a Glass House and If You Like Difficulty; and a hybrid text, Veiled Spill: A Sequence. Her memoir Apples and Oranges: My Journey through Sexual Identity was recently reissued by Seven Stories Press. Her reviews and literary journalism have appeared in Boston Review, Ms., The Nation, Women’s Review of Books, and Jacobin, among others.  She has taught creative writing at Eugene Lang College and New York University, and is on the faculty of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Goddard College.