Helena LipstadtHelena Lipstadt is the author of two chapbooks, Leave Me Signs and If My Heart Were a Desert. Her poems have been featured in The Midwest Quarterly, Sinister Wisdom, About Place Journal, and elsewhere. Anthologies that hold her prose include The Chalenge of Shalom and A Dangerous New World: Maine Voices on the Climate Crisis.Her work has been generously supported by residencies at WUJS Arts Project Arad, Israel and Borderland Foundation, Sejny, Poland.She studied with poets Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, Irena Klepfisz, Laurel Ann Bogen and Terry Wolverton.Lipstadt once accepted Bedouin hospitality in a tent on the shoulder of Mount Sinai, traveled up the Nile River in a felucca, and in Poland, helped re-create a 17th-century Polish synagogue. She also designed and built her home in Maine by hand.She was born in Berlin and now lives in Los Angeles, California and Blue Hill, Maine. Read More Read Less