MIRIAM SAPERSTEIN
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Miriam Saperstein is a writer, arts educator, and ritual crafter. The work with decomposition and Jewish ritual histories, unpacking the specifics of their relationships to place, ecology, and divinity as white settler living in Lenapehoking / West Philadelphia and originally from the suburbs of Detroit / Waawiiyaatanong. A 2023 Sach Program for Arts Innovation grantee, Miriam has received fellowships and awards through Michigan in the World, New Voices / Jewis Currents, the Hopwood Program at the University of Michigan and the Tompkins Poetry Prize at Wayne State University. Their work has appeared in The Index, Jewish Currents, Pollux Journal, and the Radical Jewish Calendar.