Culture, Arts and Refugees
Jennifer Langer
 | Jennifer LangerDirector, Exiled Writers Ink! |
Biography
Jennifer Langer is the founding director of Exiled Writers Ink, a charity dedicated to giving voice to a generation of writers in exile, which organises many events and cultural projects across otherwise divided communities including creative writing workshops, training opportunities, mentoring and translation. Jennifer is also joint editor of the literary/cultural magazine Exiled Ink, published by Exiled Writers Ink.
She has edited the anthologies: The Bend in the Road: Refugees Writing (1999), Crossing the Border: Voices of Refugee and Exiled Women Writers (2002), The Silver Throat of the Moon; Writing in Exile (2005) and If Salt Has Memory: Jewish Exiled Writers (2008), all published by Five Leaves. She is currently working on a book about return. Her own poetry focuses on her identity as the daughter of German Jewish refugees and on political and human rights issues.
She has an MA in Cultural Memory from the University of London Institute of Advanced Study, and has a background in Further Education having developed and co-ordinated refugee education projects at London further education colleges. She is a lead moderator for the Open College Network, London.
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