Maria Dylan Himmelman

Birth Year: b. 1961
Current City: Santa Monica, California, USA
Birth City: New York, New York, USA
Genre(s): Poetry

Author Reading

Photo credit: Photo Credit: Yisroel Teitelbaum

Biography

Maria Dylan Himmelman is the author of the collection, Sundry Abductions (Hanging Loose Press, 2023). Her work has appeared in Image Journal, Nimrod, New Ohio Review, Grist, Iterant and others. She divides her time between the Hudson Valley and Santa Monica, California.

What is the relationship between Judaism and/or Jewish culture and your poetry?

Jewish identity, culture and myth are always lurking under the surface of my work.

Published Works

Sundry Abductions (Hanging Loose Press, 2023)

Links to Sample Works

“For The New Parent” and “A Thin Membrane”

Subject Matter

Antisemitism, Childhood, Death, Diaspora, Eastern Europe, Family, Grief & Elegy, History, Intergenerational Trauma, Jewish Mysticism, Mythology, Shoah, Genocide, Pop Culture.