Charlotte Mandel’s recent books of poetry include, To be the Daylight (Kelsay Books, 2017), Through a Garden Gate (David Robert Books, 2015), Life Work (David Robert Books, 2013), Rock Vein Sky (Midmarch Arts Press, 2008), Sight Lines (Midmarch Arts Press, 1998) and two poem-novellas of feminist biblical revision— The Life of Mary (foreword by Sandra M. Gilbert) and The Marriages of Jacob. She co-edited, with Rachel Hadas and Maxine Silverman, Saturday’s Women, the Eileen W. Barnes Anthology of Poems by Older Women.
Mandel’s awards include a Lifetime Achievement Award from Brooklyn College, the New Jersey Poets Prize, and two fellowships in poetry from New Jersey State Council on the Arts. She earned her BA from Brooklyn College and her MA in English and Comparative Literature from Montclair State University. She taught Poetry at Barnard College Center for Research on Women from 1997 to 2009.