Sondra Gash

Sondra Gash is a poet who grew up in Paterson, New Jersey. Her full-length collection Silk Elegy, a narrative poem set in the silk-mill city of Paterson, was published by CavanKerry Press. She has received grants from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Corporation of Yaddo, and won first prize in the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Competition. She teaches writing and directs the poetry program at the Women's Resource Center in Summit, NJ. Her poems have appeared in The New York Times, Calyx, The Paterson Literary Review, and U.S. 1 Worksheets.