Janet Sternburg is a photographer, writer, filmmaker, playwright, and an educator. Her work has appeared in Aperture, Art Journal, and The Utne Reader. A monograph of her photographs, Overspilling World: The Photographs of Janet Sternburg, was published in 2016-2017. Her literary books include The Writer on Her Work, Phantom Limb, White Matter, and Optic Nerve: Photopoems.
Other creative work includes co-producer of El Teatro Campesino, a feature length documentary on the Chicano theatre troupe (1969) and her Cine Golden Eagle award-winning film Virginia Woolf The Moment Whole (1971).
Sternburg lives in Downtown Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo, and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. She has been the recipient of many grants, fellowships and artist residencies, among them, from Djerassi and MacDowell. She has taught in the Graduate Media Program at the New School University, and in the Critical Studies School at the California Institute of the Arts.
Most recently, she has published a new monograph, I’ve Been Walking: Janet Sternburg Los Angeles Photographs. Currently, she is at work on a book of her photographs of Mexico.