Jan Clausen (North Bend, Oregon, 1950) is an American writer. Her work includes poetry, fiction, and essays and has been widely published in the feminist press and elsewhere. She has co-edited Conditions, a journal of women's writing, with Elly Bulkin. She is the author of the first critical essay on the feminist poetry movement of the 1970s, A Movement of Poets. Thoughts on Poetry and Feminism, 1982.
Works After Touch, 1975 Waking at the Bottom of the Dark, 1979. Poetry. Mother, Sister, Daughter, Lover, 1980 Duration, 1983. Collection of stories. Sinking Stealing, 1985. Novel. Illustrated by None: The Prosperine Papers, 1988 Books and Life, 1989 Beyond Gay or Straight: Understanding Sexual Orientation, 1996 Apples and Oranges: My Journey through Sexual Identity, 1999
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