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Janet Sternburg(born January 1st, 1943 in Boston, Mass.) is an American writer, editor and photographer living and working in Los Angeles, New York and the Mexican city of San Miguel de Allende.

Writing

Janet Sternburg is the editor of the two volumes of the landmark The Writer On Her Work (W.W.Norton). Volume One (1980) is the first collection of commissioned essays on what it means to be a woman who writes. Called "groundbreaking" in Poets & Writers Magazine it has been continuously in print for thirty years; a twentieth anniversary edition was published with a new introduction by Julia Alvarez on its meaning for writers today. Volume Two was selected for 500 Great Books By Women: Thirteenth Century to the Present ed. Bauermeister, Larsen, Smith (Viking Penguin, 2005) and also remains in print.

Sternburg's other books include Phantom Limb, a memoir published in the American Lives series of the University of Nebraska Press (2002), and Optic Nerve, poems with photographs (Red Hen Press, 2005), that integrates text and image into a single genre.

Photography

Sternburg began taking photographs in 1998, using the special qualities of disposable (i.e. "throw-away") cameras to explore reflection, the mingling of outside and inside and the ways the past and the present seem to layer visually, without any further manipulation of the image. Her most recent work has been taken on her iPhone.

Sternburg's work has been the subject of a portfolio in Aperture (No.166) and a number of solo shows at galleries in Los Angeles, New York and San Miguel de Allende, as well as a touring exhibition in Germany (2005-7) and a multimedia installation at the Seoul Institute of Art (2009), in collaboration with projection artist Ed Purver.

Bibliography

The Writer On Her Work W.W.Norton 1980

The Writer On Her Work: New Essays in New Territory. Vol.II W.W.Norton 1991

The Writer On Her Work Combined edition. London: Virago Press 1992

The Writer On her Work Vol. I Twentieth Anniversary Edition W.W.Norton 2000

Phantom Limb, A Memoir University of Nebraska Press, American Lives Series, ed. Tobias Wolff, 2002, paperback edition, 2003

Optic Nerve: Photopoems Red Hen Press 20005

Photography Exhibitions, Publications

Solo Exhibitions

Bellas Artes, Galeria Principal, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, 1999
Skidmore Gallery of Contemporary Art, Malibu, CA, 2000
James Frances Trezza Gallery. New York, NY, 2002
Cafe Einstein Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 2005
Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut, Heidelberg, Germany, 2006
Carl Schurz Haus, Freiberg, Germany, 2007
Amerika Haus, Munich, Germany 2007
Fertile Confusion, Seoul Institute of the Arts, multifaceted whole-building installation, 2009
Skidmore Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles, CA, 2009