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Leslie Grollman

Birth Year
b. 1950
Current City
United States
Birth City
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Genre(s)
Poetry
Author’s Website

Biography

Leslie Grollman’s work appears in bath magg, Streetcake, BeZine, Sweet Lit, Ellipsis Zine, Moist Poetry Journal, Yolk, Spoken Word Scratch Night, Writing Utopia 2020 Anthology, The Selkie, Together: An Anthology, Thimble, Nailed, Pathos, elsewhere, and is forthcoming in Cordite Poetry Review, and Pidgeonholes. She was chosen to be a reader for an Octopus Books’ reading period.

She earned an MSc Creative Writing, Poetry, with Distinction, from the University of Edinburgh in 2020 at age 70.

Links to Sample Works

Subject Matter

Aging, Antisemitism, Art & Ekphrasis, Childhood, Cultural Identity, Death, Family, Friendship, Grief & Elegy, Jewish Mysticism, Jewishness, Loss, Love, Marriage, Midrash, Mythology, Narrative, Shoah, Genocide, Visual Art, Documentary Poetics.