Rodger Kamenetz

Born in Baltimore, Rodger Kamenetz earned degrees from Yale University, Johns Hopkins University, and Stanford University. He is the author of six collections of poetry, including The Missing Jew (Dryad, 1979), The Missing Jew: New and Selected (Time Being, 1992), The Lowercase Jew (Northwestern University Press, 2003), and To Die Next to You (Six Gallery, 2013). His poems have appeared in many anthologies and journals, including Grand Street, the Southern Review, Callaloo, Shenandoah, the New Republic, Boulevard, Crazyhorse, Image, and the Western Humanities Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Mississippi Review.

Kamenetz taught for many years at Louisiana State University, where he held a dual appointment as professor of English and professor of religious studies and founded the MFA program in creative writing and the Jewish studies minor. He retired as Distinguished Professor and Sternberg Honors Chair Professor. Kamenetz lives in New Orleans.