Jan Clausen

Jan Clausen’s poetry titles include Duration (Hanging Loose), If You Like Difficulty (Harbor Mountain Press), and Veiled Spill: A Sequence (GenPop Books). She has published two novels and the memoir Apples and Oranges (Seven Stories Press). Her hybrid memoir in progress is My Great Acceleration, a phenomenological-poetic exploration of US empire’s environmental and geopolitical crimes. Her poems and creative prose have appeared widely in journals and anthologies, most recently Fence, Firmament, Indianapolis Review, Makhzin, Mercury Firs, Nimrod, SurVision, and Tupelo Quarterly. Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, she has lived in Brooklyn since the 1970s.