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Janet Sternburg(born January 1st, 1943 in Boston, Mass.) is an American writer, editor and photographer living and working in Los Angeles, New York and the Mexican city of San Miguel de Allende.

Writing
Janet Sternburg is the editor of the two volumes of the landmark The Writer On Her Work (W.W.Norton). Volume One (1980) is the first collection of commissioned essays on what it means to be a woman who writes. Called "groundbreaking" in Poets & Writers Magazine it has been continuously in print for thirty years; a twentieth anniversary edition was published with a new introduction by Julia Alvarez on its meaning for writers today. Volume Two was selected for 500 Great Books By Women: Thirteenth Century to the Present ed. Bauermeister, Larsen, Smith (Viking Penguin, 2005) and also remains in print.

Sternburg's other books include Phantom Limb, a memoir published in the American Lives series of the University of Nebraska Press (2002), and Optic Nerve, poems with photographs (Red Hen Press, 2005), that integrates text and image into a single genre.

Photography
Sternburg began taking photographs in 1998, using the special qualities of disposable (i.e. "throw-away") cameras to explore reflection, the mingling of outside and inside and the ways the past and the present seem to layer visually, without any further manipulation of the image. Her most recent work has been taken on her iPhone.

Sternburg's work has been the subject of a portfolio in Aperture (No.166) and a number of solo shows at galleries in Los Angeles, New York and San Miguel de Allende, as well as a touring exhibition in Germany (2005-7) and a multimedia installation at the Seoul Institute of Art (2009), in collaboration with projection artist Ed Purver.

Solo Exhibitions

 * Bellas Artes, Galeria Principal, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, 1999
 * Skidmore Gallery of Contemporary Art, Malibu, CA, 2000
 * James Frances Trezza Gallery. New York, NY, 2002
 * Cafe Einstein Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 2005
 * Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut, Heidelberg, Germany, 2006
 * Carl Schurz Haus, Freiberg, Germany, 2007
 * Amerika Haus, Munich, Germany 2007
 * Fertile Confusion, Seoul Institute of the Arts, multifaceted whole-building installation, 2009
 * Skidmore Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles, CA, 2009

Group Exhibitions

 * Two on Cuba, Farmani Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2004
 * The Fisher Gallery, New Acquisitions, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 2005

Photography Publications

 * Aperture, No, 166, six page portfolio, 2002
 * Art Journal, Volume 61, No.1, cover, plus nine page portfolio, 2002
 * ''Teachers & Writers, Nov/Dec, Vol 31, No. 2, covers, portfolio, essay