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Bio Willa Schneberg was born in Brooklyn, New York.  Her first volume of poetry is Box Poems, Alice James Books. Her second collection In The Margins Of The World, Plain View Press, was awarded the 2002 Oregon Book Award for Poetry. Here most recent book of poems is Storytelling in Cambodia, Calyx Books. She has won two Oregon Literary Arts Fellowships in poetry, and received a grant in poetry from the Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. Willa Schneberg Her poetry has appeared in the American Poetry Review, Tikkun, Michigan Quarterly Review, Southern Poetry Review, among others. She has also been included in a number of anthologies, and in a textbook entitled: Bearing Witness: Teaching About The Holocaust, where her poetry is discussed along with the that of Carolyn Forche and Sharon Olds. She has been a poetry fellow at Yaddo, MacDowell, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, and the Tyrone Guthrie Center in Ireland. Garrison Keillor read one of her poems on the Writer's Almanac. Willa is also a ceramic sculptor, photographer, and a clinical social worker in private practice in Portland, Oregon. She has facilitated visual and poetry workshops with the chronically mentally ill, the disabled, the aged and with public school students through artists-in-the-schools programs in Massachusetts, Oregon, Tennessee and American military bases in the Far East. From 1992-1993, she worked with the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia, first as a District Electoral Supervisor setting up registration sites in Phnom Penh, and then as a Medical Liaison Officer, providing counseling and arranging repatriation for UN volunteers from member countries. She judged the 15th Annual Reuben Rose International Poetry Competition for Poets who write in English sponsored by "Voices Israel," and in Dec. of 2004 spent a week in Israel, offering talks, readings, poetry workshops and presiding over the Awards Ceremony. Willa was a guest poet at the Tucson Poetry Festival, Wordstock, the Library of Congress, and the Montana Festival of the Book. She has read at KGB, and the Bowery Poetry Club in NYC, and Black Oak Books in Berkeley. Her photographs can be found in Tricycle: The Buddhist Review and Bombay Gin. One woman exhibitions of her ceramic sculpture were on view at the Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center's Gallery, the Oregon Jewish Museum, Gallery 114, all in Portland, and Washington State University, Vancouver. Read two poems from Storytelling in Cambodia by clicking here. Contact Willa at info at threewayconversation dot org.