Jan
Steckel
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Jan Steckel is a retired Harvard- and Yale-traned pediatrician, an activist for bisexual and disability rights, a poet, and a writer. Her poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction have appeard widely, including in Scholastic Magazine, Yale Medicine, Bellevue Review, Harrington Lesbian Literary Quarterly, Red Rock Review, and elsewhere. She is the author of three books: The Horizontal Poet (copyright 2011 Zeitgeist Press), a finalist for the LAMBDA Literary Awards; Mixing Tracks (Gertrude Press, 2009), which won the Gertrude Press Fiction Chapbook Award; and The Underwater Hospital (copyright 2006 Zeitgeist Press), which won a Rainbow Award for lesbian and bisexual poetry. She lives in Oakland, CA with her husband, Hew Wolff.
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