Background
Jane Joritz was born in Harvey, Illinois in 1960.
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Jane Joritz-Nakagawa
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essayist author Associate Professor poet
Education
She received a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing (poetry specialization) from Columbia College (Chicago) and completed her Masters of Arts degree in linguistics at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Career
She is the author of numerous volumes of poetry, poetry chapbooks, and a poetry broadside. Hundreds of her poems appear in print and online journals and anthologies published in Japan, the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. Her work is archived in the University of Chicago library"s special collection of poetry from Japan.
In 1989, she moved to Japan, and in 1990, married Japanese urologist Junichirō Nakagawa.
She worked as Associate Professor at a national teacher training university, Aichi University of Education, until the spring of 2012, where she taught courses in American and British poetry, comparative poetry, gender studies, American history and pedagogy. Currently she is a freelance writer and educator living in Shizuoka Prefecture and Nagano Prefecture.
A strict vegan and a passionate advocate of women"s and animal rights, she has stated "Activism runs through what I read and what I write and what I"m teaching.".
Politics
Her work has been linked to ecopoetics and feminism.
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Quotations: "Activism runs through what I read and what I write and what I"m teaching.".
