Nancy Gordon

Nancy Gordon was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in 1938, and grew up in Chestertown and AuSable Forks, New York. She graduated from Wellesley College, earned a Master of Arts in Teaching from Wesleyan University, and taught high-school English for years, including a year teaching in New Zealand on a Fulbright-Hayes exchange grant. Her marriage in her mid thirties took her to Miami, Florida, where she earned a law degree from the University of Miami School of Law in 1982, and then practiced...See more

Nancy Gordon was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in 1938, and grew up in Chestertown and AuSable Forks, New York. She graduated from Wellesley College, earned a Master of Arts in Teaching from Wesleyan University, and taught high-school English for years, including a year teaching in New Zealand on a Fulbright-Hayes exchange grant. Her marriage in her mid thirties took her to Miami, Florida, where she earned a law degree from the University of Miami School of Law in 1982, and then practiced law until 2012. In the years since her retirement she has been writing poems and enjoying poetry workshops. See less