Myra Sklarew
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'''Myra Sklarew''' (born 1934), [[United States|American]] poet, former president of the artist community [[Yaddo]] and currently [[professor]] of [[literature]] at [[American University]], is the author of three [[chapbook]]s and six collections of [[poetry]], most recently ''Lithuania: New & Selected Poems'' (ISBN 1-885214-02-2) and ''The Witness Trees'' (ISBN 0-8453-4525-7),
a collection of short [[fiction]], ''Like a Field Riddled by Ants'' (ISBN 0-918786-36-3),
and a collection of essays, ''Over the Rooftops of Time'' (ISBN 0-7914-5576-9). Her book ''Eating the White Earth'' (ISBN 965-487-003-7 ?) was translated into [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] by the [[Israel]]i poet, [[Moshe Dor]], then published in Israel.
Myra Sklarew's [[poetry]] has been recorded for the Contemporary Poets' Archives of the [[Library of Congress]]. She is the recipient of the [[National Jewish Book Council Award]] in Poetry, the [[Di Castagnola Award]], and the [[PEN Syndicated Fiction Award]].
Myra Sklarew was educated at [[Tufts University]] where she studied [[biology]], at the [[Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory|Cold Spring Harbor Biological Laboratory]] where she worked with [[Salvador Luria]] and [[Max Delbruck]], studying [[bacterial]] [[genetics]] and bacterial [[virus]]es, and in the Writing Seminars with [[Elliott Coleman]] at the [[Johns Hopkins University]]. She has worked in the Department of [[Neurophysiology]] at [[Yale University]] School of Medicine where she studied [[frontal lobe]] function and delayed response memory in Rhesus [[monkeys]]. Myra Sklarew's claim to fame was working in a dance band on [[Long Island]] in the late 1940s as a [[pianist]] where she earned seven dollars a night. She began her work at American University in 1970. Her first students included those returning from the [[Vietnam War]].
==External links==
This brief biography was adapted on [[26 November]] [[2003]] from [http://www.american.edu/academic.depts/cas/lit/sklarew.htm The MFA in Creative Writing Program] at American University.
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[[Category:American poets]]