Biography
Eva Kollisch taught German, Comparative Literature, and Women's Studies at Sarah Lawrence College for over 30 years. She is the author of Girl in Movement, a memoir of her early years inside a small American Trotskyist party; she has also published a number of stories and personal essays. In 1939, as a 14-year-old Jewish refugee from Vienna, she was rescued by a Kindertransport and brought to England. Some nine months later she, together with her two brothers, came to the United States, where they were reunited with their parents. Eva Kollisch has been active in anti-war, feminist and human rights causes. In recent years she has become a member of One by One, a small international group that practices dialogue with the enemy. A mother and grandmother, she lives in New York City with with her long-time companion, the poet Naomi Replansky.
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