Irena Klepfisz taught Jewish Women’s Studies at Barnard College for 22 years. She is the author of four books of poetry including Periods of Stress, Keeper of Accounts, Different Enclosures, A Few Words in the Mother Tongue, and an essay collection Dreams of an Insomniac. She is the co-editor of The Tribe of Dina: A Jewish’s Women’s Anthology. She is one of the foremost advocates of the Yiddish language and its renaissance in the United States. Her work has appeared in In Geveb, Sinister Wisdom, Jewish Currents, Languages of Modern Jewish Cultures, The Manhattan Review, The Georgia Review and more.
