Jan Clausen

JAN CLAUSEN is the author of a dozen books in a range of genres, most recently the hybrid poetic text Veiled Spill: A Sequence and the poetry collection If You Like Difficulty. Prose titles include a volume of stories ( Mother, Sister, Daughter, Lover ) and two novels: Sinking, Stealing and The Prosperine Papers. Clausen's poetry and fiction appear widely in journals and anthologies; she has contributed book reviews and literary journalism to Boston Review, Ms., The Nation, Poets & Writers,...See more

JAN CLAUSEN is the author of a dozen books in a range of genres, most recently the hybrid poetic text Veiled Spill: A Sequence and the poetry collection If You Like Difficulty. Prose titles include a volume of stories ( Mother, Sister, Daughter, Lover ) and two novels: Sinking, Stealing and The Prosperine Papers. Clausen's poetry and fiction appear widely in journals and anthologies; she has contributed book reviews and literary journalism to Boston Review, Ms., The Nation, Poets & Writers, and The Women's Review of Books. A proud Brooklyn resident since 1974, she teaches in the Goddard College MFA in Writing Program and at New York University. See less