Karen A. Klatzkin

Karen Klatzkin has a doctorate in English Education from Columbia University’s Teachers College, where she wrote what could be considered her first “book,” a dissertation on intertextuality as seen in music, art, writing, and teaching. She has taught education courses at City and Queens Colleges; she has also supervised new and student teachers throughout New York City (and once in New Jersey). She was a reading/writing specialist and composition instructor at Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus and currently teaches literature at Borough of Manhattan Community College. (In a previous life, she wrote songs and performed them in cabarets.) Several years ago, she decided that it would be educationally valuable, and not just masochistic, to write the same papers she assigned her students and then to share them. This produced a Frank McCourt effect, minus the “miserable Irish childhood.” She is now working on a “creative non-fiction” book, centered on a major (cough!) birthday, which may incorporate some of the above-mentioned class papers as well.