Annette Gendler
Instructor
About Annette
Annette Gendler is the author of Jumping Over Shadows, the memoir of a German-Jewish love that overcame the burdens of the Holocaust. Her writing and photography have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Tablet Magazine, The Forward, Kveller, Bella Grace and Artful Blogging, among others. She served as the 2014–2015 writer-in-residence at the Hemingway Birthplace Home in Oak Park, Illinois, and has been teaching memoir writing at StoryStudio Chicago since 2006. She also teaches memoir workshops around the country and abroad, such as at the American Writers Museum in Chicago, the Hemingway Foundation in Oak Park, WriteSpace Jerusalem and the Writing Pad in Tel Aviv.