Gabrielle Zane, Poet

Bio

Gabrielle Zane is a poet, performer, and educator. As a Master Teaching Artist with
the CT Commission on Culture and Tourism, Ms. Zane has been a writer-in-residence in schools throughout Connecticut. For the past ten years, she has taught creative writing to students of all ages and has been contracted by schools and arts/education agencies throughout New England. She is a member of the New England Foundation for the Arts.

Her fifteen years of experience in education includes teaching at Eastern Connecticut
State University, Manchester Community College, and The Greater Hartford Academy
of the Arts. She has been the coordinator of several Interdistrict Grant programs involving creative writing and the performing arts including the Wonder, Words and People program and the Images of Cultural Identity program. She was also the Program Coordinator for the Windham Area Poetry Project's Living Literature Program.

As a member of the Poetry Alive! performance troupe, Gabrielle toured the country
performing poetry to children of all ages. Nationally recognized for her performance,
Gabrielle was the 1997 Connecticut Individual Performance Poetry Champion and the
1997 winner of the prestigious Slam Master's Slam in Chicago.

She has a chapbook entitled Being Your Eyes and Other Poems from Curbstone Press.

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