a hearth for Jewish poetry

Don Krieger

Research Scientist, Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh

Birth Year
b. 1948
Current City
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Birth City
Newark, New Jersey, USA
Genre(s)
Poetry, Nonfiction
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Biography

Don Krieger is a biomedical researcher whose focus is the electric activity within the brain. He is author of the hybrid collection Discovery (Cyberwit, 2020), the hybrid chapbook When Danger Is Past, Who Remembers? (Milk and Cake Press, 2022), a 2020 Pushcart nominee, and a 2020 Creative Nonfiction Foundation Science-as-Story Fellow. His work has appeared in Seneca Review, The Asahi Shimbun, Beltway Quarterly, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, American Journal of Nursing, Neurology, and others, and has been translated into Farsi, Greek, Italian, German, Turkish, Romanian, and Portuguese. He has served on the Board of Directors of an Orthodox Jewish Congregation.

Published Works

When Danger Is Past, Who Remembers?  (chapbook; Milk and Cake Press, 2022)
Discovery  Cyberwit (Press, 2020)

Links to Sample Works

Subject Matter

Aging, Antisemitism, Art & Ekphrasis, Childhood, Cultural Identity, Death, Diaspora, Environment & Climate Crisis, Family, Grief & Elegy, History, Intergenerational Trauma, Jewishness, Labor, Loss, Love, Marriage, Misogyny, Mythology, Narrative, Nature, Shoah, Genocide, Torah, Trauma, War, Whiteness, Math and/or Physics, Mental Illness, Disability, Race.