Rena Potok

RENA POTOK is a writer, editor, and educator. Her articles, reviews, and poems have appeared in many publications, among them Religion and Literature; The Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature; Borders, Exiles, Diasporas; and Contemporary Women Poets. She was Senior Acquisitions Editor at the Jewish Publication Society, and is the editor of Hills of Spices: Poetry from the Bible, and the 50th anniversary critical edition of The Chosen by Chaim Potok. She was a 2017 recipient of a Fiction...See more

RENA POTOK is a writer, editor, and educator. Her articles, reviews, and poems have appeared in many publications, among them Religion and Literature; The Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature; Borders, Exiles, Diasporas; and Contemporary Women Poets. She was Senior Acquisitions Editor at the Jewish Publication Society, and is the editor of Hills of Spices: Poetry from the Bible, and the 50th anniversary critical edition of The Chosen by Chaim Potok. She was a 2017 recipient of a Fiction Fellowship at the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. She teaches literature and writing at Villanova University. See less