Poet

Idra Novey

Through her poetry, translation, and fiction, Idra Novey relishes playing in the space between languages.

http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/novey-idra

Amy Gottlieb

In her novel The Beautiful Possible, Amy Gottlieb melds the everyday and the mystic by showing the secret lives and troubled pasts of rabbis, scholars, and their loved ones.

http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/gottlieb-amy

Alicia Jo Rabins

With her indie rock song cycle Girls in Trouble, musician Alicia Jo Rabins has reinterpreted the women of the Bible for a modern audience.

http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/rabins-alicia-jo

Rachel Swirsky

Rachel Swirsky’s experimental and feminist stories have garnered both awards and controversy from the science fiction and fantasy community.

http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/swirsky-rachel

Henny Wenkart

Through her creation of the Jewish Women’s Poetry Workshop, Henny Wenkart created much-needed community and resources for Jewish women writers.

http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/wenkart-henny

The first woman composer to earn a degree from the University of Michigan, Elaine Friedman Lebenbom responded to sexism and anti-Semitism by composing works that celebrated Jewish themes and women’s experiences.

http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/lebenbom-elaine

Erika Meitner

Erika Meitner’s poetry plays with the idea of overlooked but vital spaces, from malls and suburban developments to women’s bodies.

http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/meitner-erika

Jaimy Gordon

Jaimy Gordon won the National Book Award for Lords of Misrule, her novel of horseracing, desperation, and luck set in West Virginia.

http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/gordon-jaimy

Deena Metzger

Deena Metzger’s iconic portrait, “The Warrior,” changed the way we look at surviving breast cancer.

http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/metzger-deena

Jean Trounstine

Jean Trounstine taught literature to women inmates and cofounded an award-winning alternative probation program that uses writing and literature to offer prisoners a second chance.

http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/trounstine-jean

Merle Feld

Both through her writing and in her work with Israeli-Palestinian dialogue groups, Merle Feld supported the difficult and delicate struggle to make peace in the Middle East.

http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/feld-merle

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