Claudine D’Angelo-Dotzman is a writer, educator and lover of words. She is an Adjunct Professor at Passaic County Community College where she teaches Composition and Public Speaking. She is also an MFA candidate in Creative and Professional Writing at Western Connecticut State University.

Claudine has published both short fiction and book reviews. Her translations of work by Mexican poet, Jaime Sabines, have been included in Twentieth Century Latin American Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology. Her fiction explores place and ethnicity and how they shape both individuals and communities. Her musings about life, the arts and her nonna’s handmade gnocchi can be found in her blog, “The Un-real New Jersey Housewife”.

Claudine and her husband live in the beautiful wooded hills of Northern New Jersey (no, really) with their four amazing and creative children.