Nancy Shiffrin

Nancy Shiffrin is the author of 4 collections of poetry: The Vast Unknowing, Infinity Publishing 2012, Game With Variations Flight and This Sacred Earth.   See her Authors Guild website https://www.NancyShiffrin.net for more information about her  currently available publications.

Nancy Shiffrin earned an MA in English from International College, 1977,  studying with Anais Nin, a PhD in English at the Union Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio 1994 studying Jewish American Women authors.  Find her dissertation here:By=Nancy+Shiffrin&Title=The+Everchanging+and+The+Everlasting+&pubnum=9508306

Nancy's novel Out of the Garden is accompanied by an essay, Invoking Anais Nin, which describes Nancy's experience working with Nin in the last class Nin offered in Los Angeles before she died.

Nancy is engaged in collecting works produced over many years of  publishing. These include:  My Jewish Name (essays), Allison's War (novel), Prose on Poets and Poetry (essays, articles, reviews), Towards Wholeness (essays, articles, reviews).

All of these are available from Nancy Shiffrin nshiffrin@earthlink.net as pdf files.

Her credits include the Los Angeles Times, Human Behavior, Shofar, New York Magazine, Humanistic Judaism, Lummox Journal, poetix.net, and numerous other periodicals.

Nancy's teaching experience includes composition, literature and creative writing.  Through Creative Writing Services she helps aspiring writers achieve publication and personal satisfaction.