Estha Weiner

Estha Weiner is co-editor and contributor to Blues For Bill: A  Tribute To William Matthews (Akron Poetry Series, 2005 ), and author of In the Weather of the World (Salmon Poetry, 2013), The Mistress Manuscript (Book Works, 2009) and Transfiguration Begins At Home (Tiger Bark Press, 2009).  Her poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines, including The New Republic and Barrow Street.  Nominated for a 2008 Pushcart Prize, she was a 2005 winner of a Paterson Poetry Prize, and a 2008 Visiting Scholar at The Shakespeare  Institute, Stratford, England. Estha is founding director of  Sarah Lawrence College NY Writers’ Nights Series, Marymount Writers Nights, and a Speaker on Shakespeare for The New York Council For The Humanities. She is a  Professor in the English Dept. at City College of NY, and serves or has served on the Poetry/Writing faculties of The Frost Place, The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center, Stonecoast Writers’ Conference, Poets and Writers, Poets House, and The Writer’s Voice.  She also serves on the Advisory Board of Slapering Hol Press, Hudson Valley Writers Center. In her previous life, Estha was an actor and worked for BBC radio.

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