Ani Tuzman

Ani Tuzman is an award-winning poet, writing mentor, and author of The Tremble of Love: A Novel of the Baal Shem Tov and Angels on the Clothesline, A Memoir. Ani grew up on a back-road chicken farm, the daughter of Holocaust survivors. At the age of eight, she began writing to an invisible companion, filling pages with her questions about a world darkened by the shadow of the Holocaust.  But there was also the ecstasy of rain and the stars illuminating the night sky. Writing about it all became Ani’s path through darkness to light. She has not stopped writing since. Ani is the founder of the Dance of the Letters Writing Center, where for over 40 years she has welcomed people of all ages to find and free their voices.