Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, Jan Clausen writes and organizes in the borough of Brooklyn, her home for the last 50 years. Her poetry titles include Duration (Hanging Loose Press, 1983), If You Like Difficulty (Harbor Mountain Press, 2007), and Veiled Spill: A Sequence(GenPop Books, 2014). Her poems and creative prose have appeared widely in journals and anthologies, most recently Fence, Indianapolis Review, Mercury Firs, Nimrod, SurVision, and Tupelo Quarterly. The recipient of fellowships from the NEA (fiction) and NYFA (poetry), Clausen has also published two novels and a short story collection. Seven Stories Press recently reissued her 1999 memoir Apples and Oranges. Her hybrid memoir in progress is My Great Acceleration.