Chana bloch biography sample

American writer and educator (1940–2017)

Chana Bloch (March 15, 1940 – May 19, 2017) was an American poet,^[1] translator, and scholar. She was a professor emerita of English at Mills College in Oakland, California.^[2]

Early life and education

Born as Florence Ina Faerstein in the Bronx, New York, she was a second-generation American, the daughter of Benjamin and Rose (née Rosenberg) Faerstein; her parents were both observant Jews who had immigrated from Ukraine.^[3] Bloch later identified herself as a Jewish humanist.^[4] Her father was a dentist, and her mother a homemaker.^[3]

Bloch earned her B.A.

from Cornell University, her M.A. degrees in Judaic Studies and English literature from Brandeis University, and a Ph.D. in English from the University of California at Berkeley.

College

She taught at Mills College for over thirty years (1973–2005)^[5] and directed their Creative Writing Program.^[6&