Published two times a year in high-quality, perfect-bound paperback, Tiferet Journal is a literary magazine offering nearly two hundred pages of fiction, nonfiction and poetry in each issue by esteemed writers of many faiths.
Author Valerie Martinez
Valerie Martinez, Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing, at the College of Santa Fe. Her first book of poems, Absence Luminescent (Four Way Books, 1999), won the Larry Levis Prize and a Greenwall Grant from the Academy of American Poets. Her second book, World to World, is forthcoming in 2004 from the University of Arizona Press. Martinez’s poems have appeared in a number of anthologies including American Poetry: Next Generation (2000); The New American Poets: A Breadloaf Anthology (2000); Touching the Fire: Fifteen Poets of Today’s Latino Renaissance (1998); The Best American Poetry, 1996; and Renaming Ecstasy: Latino Writings on the Sacred (Bilingual Press, 2003). Her poetry and translations from the Spanish have appeared in many journals and magazines including Pamassus, AGNI, Puerto del Sol, Confluence, Prairie Schooner, LUNA, The Bloomsbury Review and the Colorado Review.
