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Miriam Saperstein

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