Presented in partership by The Betsy - South Beach, Aqua Foundation, and Reading Queer, join us as we welcome writer Joy Ladin, Professor at Yeshiva University's Stern School for Women, Noted Trans Writer to Miami.
Joy Ladin received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College in 1982 an MFA in creative writing/poetry from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1995, and a PhD in English from Princeton University in 2000. In 2007, Ladin became the first openly transgender employee of Yeshiva University, an Orthodox Jewish institution. Ladin has published numerous poetry collections and is the author of a memoir, Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey Between Genders (University of Wisconsin Press, 2012). Ladin is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Hadassah Brandeis Research Fellowship, two Forward Fives awards, an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, and a Fulbright Scholarship. Ladin teaches at the Stern College of Yeshiva University, where she holds the David and Ruth Gottesman Chair in English.
This event is free and open to hotel guests and community, but your RSVP is requested.