Ellen Jaffe - biography, career, poetry
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Ellen Jaffe was born in New York City, 1945, and is of Jewish-Russian descent. She graduated from Wellesley College, attended Columbia University in Theatre Studies, and received an M.A. from New York University in Education. Jaffe worked with the "Voice of the Children" writing group and also at WBAI-FM radio. She lived in England for 7 years, and completed a program in Child Psychotherapy at the Tavistock Clinic. She moved to Ontario in 1979, where she has worked part-time as a therapist, and taught writing workshops in various schools, several times awarded "Artist in Education" grants from the Ontario Arts Council. A finalist in the CBC Literary Competition (poetry) in 1996, Jaffe has given readings in Hamilton, London, Toronto, Woodstock, and Ingersoll, Ontario, and also in Vancouver; a few poems have been heard on CBC-radio. She tied for fourth place in the Short Plays for Schools contest sponsored by CAN-BAIA in 1996, and is working on another play for children. She has one son, Joe, born in 1980. She has also studied Shamanic healing, and has been a volunteer on TV-Ontario’s Regional Council. She enjoys canoeing in the wilderness and would like to see the Galapagos Islands while she still can. She has dual US-Canadian citizenship.
Books & Chapbooks
* Water Children. Hamilton, Ontario: Mini Mocho Press, 2002.
* Writing Your Way: Creating a Personal Journal. Toronto: Sumach Press, 2001.
* -- Ellen Jaffe is available to arrange workshops on writing, relating to this book ejaffe@sympatico.ca Apparitions: Visions of a millenium. By Lesley Chin Douglass, Ellen Jaffe, Gertrude Lebans. Dundas, Ontario: artemis enterprises, 1997.
* Intricate Countries: Women Poets from Earth to Sky. Ed. Gertrude Lebans with Lesley Chin Douglas and Ellen Jaffe. Dundas, Ontario: artemis enterprises, 1996.
Poems in Anthologies
* No Choice but to Trust: The 1999 Sandburg-Livesay Award. Ed. Raymond Souster. Pittsburgh, PA: UnMon [Unfinished Monument] America, 2000.
* Exchanges Between Us: More Intergenerational Connections. Eds. Ellen B. Ryan, Gail M. Elliot, and Ann P. Anas. Hamilton, Ontario: Centre for Gerontological Studies, McMaster University, 2000.
* Now See Here! southern Ontario poets and illustrators. Ed. James Strecker. Hamilton, Ontario: Mini Mocho Press, 2000.
* 1997 anthology of Hamilton Region Women Writers Artists, Gearing Up Press.
* (W)rites of Spring Chapbooks, anthologies of poems from the Ontario Branch of The League of Canadian Poets: Between Cultures (1995) and Hawthorn, Hearts, Holograms: Towards the Millenium (1996)
* Families from Within (Médiaspaul, Montreal) 1994.
* Chants pour le Vietnam (French translation) 1968.
Poems in Periodicals
* Writers Undercover, vol. ix, 2002 Cambridge Writers Collective First-prize poem, second-prize short story).
* Writers Undercover, vol. viii, 2001 Cambridge Writers Collective (fiction and poetry).
* Capilano Review, 2001.
* Contemporary Verse 2 (Winnipeg) 1999.
* Medicine and War (U.K.) 1994.
* Paperplates (Toronto) 1997.
* Sensitivity (Woodstock Public Library, Ontario) 1981.
Art and Poetry
* Exhibit of Drawings by various artists interpreting some of Jaffe’s poems, Ingersoll Creative Arts Centre, Ingersoll, Ontario, August 1998.
* Impact Gallery, Buffalo, New York: Art and Poetry group show, and related chapbook, 1996.
* Birthsongs (six poems, with drawings by Anne Walk). Published in conjunction with an exhibit of these poems and paintings and drawings by Anne Walk and Leslie Sirochan at the Woodstock Public Art Gallery, 1992. The exhibit was remounted, on a smaller scale, at the "Palace at 4 a.m." gallery, London, Ontario, 1995. Readings, including one for children, accompanied the exhibits.
Other
* "For Rose Albert (26 June 1895 - 19 May 1988)" and "How to Live with Ghosts." Death, Dying and Bereavement. Eds. Donna Dickenson and Malcolm Johnson. London: Open University, SAGE Publications, 1993.
* Three poems in Soul Retrieval: mending the fragmented self, by Sandra Ingerman (San Francisco: Harper) 1991.
* Nelson Publishers’ reading program ("If Pigs Could Fly") 1984.
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