Corie Feiner

Corie Feiner (nee Herman) is a poet and performer from New York.

She received her MFA in poetry from NYU where she studied with Agha Shahid Ali, Sharon Olds, Marie Ponsot, and Philip Levine.

She is the author of the celebrated poetry collection, Radishes into Roses. Her poetry appears regularly in literary journals and anthologies including Calyx, Kalliope, So to Speakl, The Cortland Review, Voices Israel, Zeek, The Jewish Women's Literary Annual, Runes, and Kerem.

A recent winner of the "Vent Yolur Inspiration," Poetry Contest, Corie has been a featured performer at spoken word venues, universities, theatres, conferences, and synagogues including the Dodge Poetry Festival, The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, Tel Aviv University, Brown University, Joyce Theatre, 92nd Street Y, the Tikkun National Conference, and MAKOR, as part of the artist-in-residence program.

A celebrated teacher, Corie is a professor for the Masters of Writing Program at Manhattanville College. She also conducts poetry workshops and staff developments with Poets House, Poets & Writers, Teachers & Writers, and the Writer's Voice at the West Side Y.

She is the Poetry Editor of the Bellevue Literary Review and the Contributing Editor of Tiferet.

She lives on the Upper West Side with her husband, Uri. They are expecting their first child in the spring of 2007.