Jan Steckel
First full-length poetry collection by Jan Steckel, author of two chapbooks, The Underwater Hospital (Zeitgeist Press, 2006) and Mixing Tracks (Gertrude Press, 2009). The Horizontal Poet won a 2012 Lambda Literary Award.,Jan Steckel is a retired Harvard- and Yale-trained pediatrician, an activist for disability and bisexual rights, a poet, and a writer. Her poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in Scholastic Magazine, Yale Medicine, Bellevue Literary Review and elsewhere. She has won multiple national awards for her chapbooks and poems and has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize. She lives in Oakland, California with her husband, Hew Wolff.
Poetry,LGBT,Bisexual,LGBT,Nonfiction,GLBT,Queer
The Horizontal Poet