Sascha Feinstein
SASCHA FEINSTEIN received the 2008 Pennsylvania's Governor's Award for Artist of the Year. He is the author of two poetry collections: Misterioso (winner of the Hayden Carruth Award) and Ajanta’s Ledge. His other books include a memoir, Black Pearls: Improvisations on Recovered Memory; a collection of interviews, Ask Me Now: Conversations on Jazz & Literature; and a critical study, Jazz Poetry: From the 1920s to the Present. He has also co-edited four books: The Jazz Poetry Anthology and its companion volume The Second Set (both with Yusef Komunyakaa), The Jazz Fiction Anthology (with David Rife), and Keystone Korner: Portrait of a Jazz Club (with Kathy Sloane). A frequent contributor to JAZZIZ magazine, he has published work in American Poetry Review, The Southern Review, African American Review, The Wallace Stevens Journal, The Penguin Book of the Sonnet, The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, and elsewhere. He is Professor of English at Lycoming College, where he co-directs the Creative Writing Program and edits Brilliant Corners: A Journal of Jazz & Literature. www.saschafeinstein.com
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