Biographical Statement
Joel Savishinsky is a retired professor of anthropology and gerontology, and has studied adaptations to diverse environments, human development, and the aging process, in the Canadian Arctic, Turkey, the Caribbean, the United States, England and India. His books include The Trail of the Hare: Environment and Stress in a Sub-Arctic Community, and Breaking The Watch: The Meanings of Retirement in America, which won the Gerontological Society of America’s Kalish Award for Innovative Publishing. His poetry has appeared, or is in press, in Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly, The Avocet, The Berkshire Review, Blood and Thunder, Crosscurrents, Free State Review, From Whispers to Roars, Muddy River Poetry Review, The New York Times, PageBoy, Passager, The Pharos, Shot Glass Journal, Starfish, Third Eye, Windfall, and Xanadu. He lives in Seattle, helping to raise five grandchildren and as much political trouble as he can.
