About Me

Estha Weiner's newest poetry collection, This Insubstantial Pageant, (Broadstone Books, 2022). She is also author of at the last minute ( Salmon Poetry) ; In the Weather of the World { Salmon Poetry}; Transfiguration Begins at Home  {Tiger Bark Press};  The Mistress Manuscript { Asheville Book Works}; and  co-editor /contributor  to Blues for Bill: A Tribute to William Matthews { University of Akron Press, Akron Poetry Series}   Her poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines, including  The New Republic and Barrow Street. Winner of a Paterson Poetry Prize, Speaker on Shakespeare for NY Council for the Humanities, and Visiting Scholar at Shakespeare Institute, Stratford, England, Estha is founding director of Sarah Lawrence College NY  Alumni Writers Nights. She is a professor at City College of N.Y. Dept. of English and Sarah Lawrence Writing Institute, and serves or has served on the Poetry/Writing faculties of The Frost Place, Hudson Valley Writers Center, Stone Coast Writers Conference, Poets and Writers, Poets House, and The Writers Voice. She also serves on the Advisory Committee of Slapering Hol Press, Hudson Valley Writers Center. In her previous life , she was an actor and worked for BBC Radio.

(author photo: Michael Ian)