“Her writing is woman's work, fueled in the ancient understandings that seem necessary but forgotten,  that rise up out of her bones into near surgical wisdom.”

— louie skipper

I grew up in a small town nestled in wilderness once inhabited by the Lenni-Lenape of New Jersey. Like many a girl torn between career and love, I came to writing when the world let me down. I wanted to recreate the world, and I began to love words—just as a child I had fallen in love with the piano. I have traveled and have married and have been blessed with a son, daughter, and daughter-in-law who are all musicians, as well as a grandchild, who will likely find his way into the arts. 

I have written for radio, I have written publicity, and I have tried my hand at literature. I have taught college writing, and I have been a writer-in-residence in the schools. I have also performed my work. I stand on a stage or in front of a classroom, and I am overtaken by love. I sit with a pen or at the terminal with its maze of letters that my fingers have learned to caress, not so different from piano, except that the melodies are imagined.

Twice a Pushcart Prize nominee, Geri Lipschultz has published in Terrain, World Literature Today, the Rumpus, Ms, The Toast, The New York Times, Black Warrior Review, College English, and many others. Her work appears in Pearson's Literature: Introduction to Reading and Writing, and in Spuyten Duyvil's Wreckage of Reason II. She has an MFA from Iowa and a Ph.D. from Ohio University. She currently teaches writing at Borough of Manhattan Community College. She received a Creative Artist Public Service (C.A.P.S.) fellowship from New York State. Her one-woman show was produced in New York City by Woodie King, Jr. She is one of three writers for the children's book of poems, Did You Kiss a Cat Today??? (which may be pre-ordered on Amazon). Her novel, Grace Before the Fall, is just out with DarkWinter Press, with a Foreword by John Irving (which may be found on Amazon).