About the Author
Jason Shinder was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1955.
His first book of poems, Every Room We Ever Slept In, was a New York Public Library Noted book and his second collection, Among Women, was published in 2001. He is the editor of several anthologies, most recently Tales from the Couch: Writers on Therapy, Best American Movie Writing, and The Poem That Changed America: "Howl" Fifty Years Later.
Shinder teaches in the graduate writing programs at Bennington College and the New School University. Founder and director of the YMCA National Writer's Voice, he is also director of Sundance Institute's Writing Program.