Willa Schneberg

Poet

Portland, OR
Oregon US

Author's Bio

Willa Schneberg is a poet, ceramic sculptor, interdisciplinary artist, curator and Licensed Clinical Social Worker, (LCSW) in private practice. Her new poetry collection, is entitled The Naked Room. The Naked Room, is a true synthesis of Willa’s life as a psychotherapist, and her life as a poet. These are poems of the unconscious, the dreamscape, the despondent, the unmoored and the mortal. She is the author of five prior collections, including In the Margins of the WorldStorytelling in Cambodia and The Books of Esther, a letterpress chapbook produced in conjunction with the eponymous interdisciplinary exhibit, which was on view at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education, (OJMCHE). Her poems are included in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror Nineteenth Collection. She received two fellowships in Poetry from Literary Arts, Inc., residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell and Kathmandu, Nepal, and poems on the Writer’s Almanac.  In March 2023,, she spoke about The Naked Room at universities in Glasgow, Scotland. Her poetry has been translated into Hebrew, Arabic, Nepali and Korean.

 

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Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Memories Flow In Our Veins - Forty Years of Women's Writing from Calyx (Ooligan Press, 2016)
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Raising Lilly Ledbetter: Women Poets Occupy the Workspace (Lost Horse Press, 2015)
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Alive at the Center: An Anthology of Poems from the Pacific Northwest (Ooligan Press, 2013)
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Lit From Inside: 40 Years of Poetry from Alice James Books (Alice James Books, 2013)
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Before There Is Nowhere to Stand Palestine/Israel Poets Respond to the Struggle (Lost Horse Press, 2012)
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I Go To The Ruined Place Contemporary Poets in Defense of Global Human Rights (Lost Horse Press, 2009)
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Women. Period (Spinsters Ink, 2008)
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Walking Bridges Using Poetry as a Compass (Urban Adventure Press, 2007)
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Regrets Only: Contemporary Poets on the Theme of Regret (Little Pear Press, 2006)
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The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2006: Nineteenth Annual Collection (St. Martins Press, 2006)
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Chance Of A Ghost: An Anthology of Contemporary Ghost Poems (Helicon Nine Editions, 2005)
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Knoxville Bound: A Collection of Literary Works Inspired by Knoxville, TN (Metropulse Publishing, 2004)
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Teaching the Holocaust (Heinemann Books, 2001)
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Claiming the Spirit Within (Beacon Press, 2000)
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Point of Contact: Disability, Art, and Culture (University of Michigan Press, 2000)
Books:
The Naked Room (Broadstone Books, 2023)
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Rending the Garment (Box Turtle Press, 2014)
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Storytelling In Cambodia (Calyx Books, 2006)
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In the Margins of the World (Plain View Press, 2001)
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Box Poems (Alice James Books, 1979)
Prizes won: 

The Oregon Book Award in Poetry, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Award, Second Place in the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award.

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Buddhist, Jewish
Born in: 
Brooklyn, NY
New York
Raised in: 
Brooklyn, NY
New York
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Last update: Jul 25, 2023