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Carol Dorf

Zoeglossia Fellow

Current City
Berkeley, California, USA
Genre(s)
Poetry
Author Reading
Photo credit: Photo Credit: Carol Dorf

Biography

Carol Dorf’s writing has been published in the chapbooks Theory Headed Dragon (Finishing Line Press), and Given (Origami Poems Project), as well as in journals that include The Reform Jewish Quarterly, Shofar, Responsa, Great Weather for Media, The Mom Egg, Abyss and Apex, Unlikely Stories, About Place, Slipstream, The Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, Scientific American, and Maintenant. She is a Zoeglossia fellow as well as the founding poetry editor of Talking Writing. She’s taught in a variety of settings including a day school, a large public high school, at Lawrence Hall of Science, Berkeley City College, and at conferences.

Published Works

Given (Origami Poems Project, 2020)
The Theory Headed Dragon
(chapbook; Finishing Line Press, 2016)

Links to Sample Works

Subject Matter

Aging, Art & Ekphrasis, Childhood, Cultural Identity, Death, Environment & Climate Crisis, Family, Gender, Grief & Elegy, History, Jewishness, Labor, Midrash, Motherhood/Fertility, Parenting, Politics, Shoah, Genocide, Torah, Math and/or Physics, Visual Art, Feminism, LGBTQ+, Documentary Poetics, Disability.