Claudia March Reder (formerly Wischner)

Discipline: Poetry

Based In: Pittsburgh, PA

Year at Millay: 1983

Website: https://www.claudiareder.com/

Claudia Reder’s newest book of poems, Dizzying Words, is available from Main Street Rag Press. Reder is the author of How to Disappear, a poetic memoir, (Blue Light Press). Uncertain Earth (Finishing Line Press), and My Father & Miro (winner of the Bright Hill Press Award).  How to Disappear was awarded first prize in the Pinnacle and Feathered Quill awards.  She was awarded the Charlotte Newberger Poetry Prize from Lilith Magazine, and two literary fellowships from the Pennsylvania Arts Council. She attended Millay Colony, NAPA Writer’s Conference and The Valley. Her poetry ms. Appointment with Worry was a finalist for the Inlandia Institute Hillary Gravendyk Prize. Her poetry ms. This Book is for Lettie was a finalist for the Changing Light Prize from Livingston Press. A finalist for the Discovery Award, she was previously a storyteller and poet in the schools in DE, NJ, and PA. She taught at California State University at Channel Islands in the English Dept. and is now retired from teaching. Recently she left the west coast for gray Pittsburgh skies. She hopes to make it through winter in Pittsburgh.

https://www.claudiareder.com/
https://yetzirahpoets.org/jewish-poets-database/
https://www.amazon.com/How-Disappear-Claudia-M-Reder/dp/1421838176