Pushcart-nominated writer Jan Steckel is a bisexual activist and a Harvard- and Yale-trained pediatrician. She served as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Dominican Republic and cared for Spanish-speaking families in California at a county hospital and at a large HMO. In 2001, she left the practice of medicine to write full-time. Her poems, short stories and nonfiction pieces have appeared in print and online publications such as Scholastic Magazine, Yale Medicine, So to Speak, Margin and Lodestar Quarterly. She has performed her poems and stories as a featured reader at numerous West Coast venues. Her work has won writing awards and has been widely anthologized. She lives in Oakland, California with her lord and webmaster, Hew Wolff, who designed her web site at www.jansteckel.com.
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