Helfgott, Esther Altshul

Helfgott, Esther Altshul

ESTHER ALTSHUL HELFGOTT is a non-fiction writer and poet with a Ph.D. in history from the University of Washington. She curates the It’s About Time Writers Reading Series at the Seattle Public Library and facilitates the women’s writing group “Poeming the Silence.” Her work appears in numerous journals, including Maggid: A Journal of Jewish Literature; American Imago: Psychoanalysis and the Human Sciences; HistoryLink; and the Journal of Poetry Therapy. She writes a blog on Alzheimer’s for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Her website can be found at www.estherhelfgott.com.