6/25/2023 0 Comments Joy ladin through the door of life![]() She was a Lambda Literary Award finalist, a Forward Fives winner, and was recognized with a Fulbright Scholarship. Ladin has authored seven books of poetry: Impersonation(2015), The Definition of Joy (2012), Coming to Life (2010), Psalms (2010), Transmigration (2009), The Book of Anna (2006), and Alternatives to History (2003). Her work has appeared in many journals, including American Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, Parnassus: Poetry in Review, Southwest Review, among others. She has also taught widely: Graduate Program of Creative Writing at Sarah Lawrence, Princeton University, Tel Aviv University, Reed College, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. They are scholarly, yet extremely approachable, and filled with great humor and heartbreaking sadness. ![]() Ladin’s poems are at once ferocious and tender. As the first openly transgender employee of an Orthodox Jewish institution, she approaches the intersection of gender identity and Judaism, gender identity and religious worldviews with a scholar’s erudition and a poet’s sensibility. ![]() JOY LADIN holds the David and Ruth Gottesman Chair in English at Stern College of Yeshiva University. ![]()
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