Geri Lipschultz

Twice a Pushcart Prize nominee, Geri Lipschultz has published in Terrain, World Literature Today, the Rumpus, Ms, The Toast, The New York Times, Black Warrior Review, College English, and many others. Her work appears in Pearson's Literature: Introduction to Reading and Writing, and in Spuyten Duyvil's Wreckage of Reason II. She edited and wrote the introduction for Visions of Peace—published by the World Peace Prayer Society--a book of children’s poems that came from classes she taught as a writer-in-residence in a number of schools in New York City and Long Island. She also wrote and directed the children’s play If You Ask Me that was inspired by many of these poems. She taught writing to children at Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, a summer arts center. She has an MFA from Iowa and a Ph.D. from Ohio University. She currently teaches writing at Borough of Manhattan Community College. She received a Creative Artist Public Service (C.A.P.S.) fellowship from New York State. Her one-woman show was produced in New York City by Woodie King, Jr.