Creative Writing on Jewish Themes
with author Shira Nayman
Spring 2026, Wednesdays group
About Your Teacher
Shira Nayman is an award-winning author, creative writing teacher and psychologist living in New York. She is the author of multiple novels and short story collections, including "Awake in the Dark," "The Listener" and "Mind of Winter." She has published fiction and nonfiction in a variety of literary journals and newspapers, including The Atlantic, The Georgia Review, The New England Review, Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought and Columbia: A Magazine of Poetry and Prose. The winner of several grants from the likes of the Hadassah Brandeis Institute and the Australia Council for the Arts Literary Board, Nayman also holds a Psy.D from Rutgers University and explores themes of intergenerational Jewish trauma in her many works.
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