About Harriet

Harriet Shenkman is the current Poet-in-Residence at the JCC of Mid-Westchester and Broadview Senior Living. She earned a Ph.D. from Fordham University, an M.Ed. from Duke University, and is a professor emerita at City University of New York. Her poetry awards include the Women’s National Book Association Annual Contest and the Women Who Write International Poetry Contest. Her work has appeared in Westchester Review, The Alexandria Quarterly, Comstock Review, The Berru Poetry Series of the Jewish Book Council, Fig Tree Press, The Marbled Sigh and elsewhere. The chapbooks, Teetering and The Present Abandoned, were published by Finishing Line Press. Her poetry collection, Wonder Wheel, was published by Grayson Books, 2003. Her forthcoming chapbook, Re-Coupling, will be published by Kelsay Books, 2005.  Raised in Brooklyn, New York, she is a first generation American.