Jane Seskin

JANE SESKIN is a clinical social worker and writer. For 20 years she provided individual and group counseling to survivors of violent crimes in a specialized hospital unit in New York. She is the author of 13 books, the latest the poetry collection OLDER WISER SHORTER: The Truth and Humor of Life After 65. She's published more than 40 essays and poems in national magazines and journals. Jane has been a writer-in-residence at the Vermont Studio Center and Noepe Center For Literary Arts. She embraces the idea of personal re-invention and optimistically believes behavioral and life change is possible. She's been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She loves reading mysteries, listening to jazz and has never met a piece of bread she wouldn't try.