Janet Pocorobba

Janet Pocorobba is associate professor of writing at Lesley University and associate director of their low-residency MFA in creative writing. She received her MFA from Lesley in June 2006. A former writer and contributing editor at Metropolis magazine in Tokyo, her memoirs, essays and reviews have appeared in the Rumpus, the Writer, Kyoto Journal, Indiana Review, Provincetown Arts, American Athenaeum, and elsewhere. She lives in a cabin in Vermont, where she keeps a blog of rural life at www.onsodompond.wordpress.com and is writing a book about women, her local co-op, and community.