Dr Jennifer Langer
Dr Jennifer Langer is a poet, editor and founding director of Exiled Writers Ink. She has edited five anthologies of exiled literature – The Bend in the Road (1997), Crossing the Border: Exiled Women’s Writing (2002), The Silver Throat of the Moon (2005), If Salt has Memory: Jewish Exiled Writing (2008), (Five Leaves) and Resistance (2020, Palewell Press). Her debut poetry collection is The Search (Victorina Press, 2021) with her work also having been published in literary magazines.
Jennifer has performed her poetry at a range of venues including Exiled Lit Cafe, Cheltenham Poetry Festival, Poets for Ukraine, Poètes à Paris festival, Poetry Cafe, Pen to Print Festival, Bordeaux University and Jewish Book Week.
She holds a doctorate in Cultural Memory from SOAS, University of London where she was a postdoctoral Research Associate. Jennifer is the daughter of German Jewish refugees who fled Nazi Germany for Britain and were both the sole survivors of their respective families.