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Works of Radical Imagination

Jan Clausen

JAN CLAUSEN is the author of a dozen books in a range of genres, including Veiled Spill: A Sequence, from GenPop Books (2014) and her memoir Apples & Oranges. Other recent poetry collections are From a Glass House and If You Like Difficulty. Prose titles include the story collection Mother, Sister, Daughter, Lover and the novels Sinking, Stealing and The Prosperine Papers. Clausen's poetry and creative prose are widely published in journals and anthologies; her book reviews and literary journalism have appeared in Boston Review,Ms.,The NationPoets & Writers, and The Women's Review of Books. A resident of Brooklyn since the 1970s, she maintains close ties to the Pacific Northwest, where she was born and raised. The recipient of writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts, she taught for many years in the undergraduate creative writing program at Eugene Lang College, the New School. Currently she teaches in the Goddard College MFA in Writing Program and at New York University.