The writer places him or herself firmly between one moment of creation and the next.
Jo-Ann Mort returned a few years ago to poetry writing after a 22-year hiatus. Her poems have recently appeared in Plume Poetry, The Women’s Review of Books, Atlanta Review, Stand (UK), Upstreet, and Sources Journal (published in Jerusalem). A journalist and analyst too, she is a member of the editorial board of Dissent Magazine, where she writes frequently and has recently published there as well as in Democracy Journal, Index on Censorship, The American Prospect, and the New York Review of Books Daily. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.