Jan Heller Levi
Jan Heller Levi's first collection of poems, Once I Gazed at You in Wonder , won the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, and poems from her second collection, Skyspeak , won The Emily Dickinson Award of the Poetry Society of America. She is the editor of A Muriel Rukeyser Reader , served as consulting editor for the new edition of The Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser , and is currently writing the biography of Rukeyser. She is also co-editor, with Sara Miles, of Directed by...See more
Jan Heller Levi's first collection of poems, Once I Gazed at You in Wonder , won the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, and poems from her second collection, Skyspeak , won The Emily Dickinson Award of the Poetry Society of America. She is the editor of A Muriel Rukeyser Reader , served as consulting editor for the new edition of The Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser , and is currently writing the biography of Rukeyser. She is also co-editor, with Sara Miles, of Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan . She lives in New York City with her husband, the Swiss novelist and playwright Christoph Keller, and teaches at Hunter College See less