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Jan M. Steckel | |
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| Born | August 22, 1962 California, US |
| Occupation | Pediatrician (retired), poet, short-story writer |
| Alma mater | Harvard University (B.A., 1983) Yale University (M.D., 1994) |
| Genre | Poetry, Short stories |
| Notable works | The Horizontal Poet (2011); The Underwater Hospital (2006) |
| Notable awards | Lambda Literary Award: Bisexual Nonfiction (2011); |
| Spouse | Hew Wolff |
| Website | |
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Jan Steckel[1] is a San Francisco Bay Area-based writer of poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction, who is also known as an activist in the bisexual community and an advocate on behalf of the disabled and the underprivileged.
Steckel has published over a hundred of her short stories, poems and nonfiction pieces in print and in online publications such as Scholastic Magazine, Yale Medicine, Red Rock Review, So to Speak, Redwood Coast Review, and Bellevue Literary Review. Steckel's writing has been nominated twice for Pushcart Prizes:[2] once for her nonfiction, and once for her poetry.[3]
- ^ "24th Annual Lambda Literary Awards Announced". Bi Magazine. June 5, 2012. Archived from the original on June 10, 2012. Retrieved June 5, 2012.
- ^ "Contributors' Notes | Bellevue Literary Review | New York, NY". blr.med.nyu.edu. Archived from the original on July 13, 2019. Retrieved July 13, 2019.
- ^ Evan Karp (April 27, 2012), Jan Steckel « Lambda Literary Award Finalists, archived from the original on December 21, 2021, retrieved July 15, 2019