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Ani Tuzman Bio (various lengths)
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Ani Tuzman is an award-winning poet, author, and writing mentor. Learn more about and connect with Ani at www.anituzman.com. [19 words]
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Ani Tuzman is an award-winning poet, writing mentor, and author of The Tremble of Love: A Novel of the Baal Shem Tov and Angels on the Clothesline, A Memoir. Ani lives in New England where she enjoys long walks in the changing seasons, meditation, and inspiring people of all ages to find and free their voices. Learn more about Ani at www.anituzman.com. [62 words]
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Ani Tuzman is an award-winning poet, writing mentor, and author of The Tremble of Love: A Novel of the Baal Shem Tov and Angels on the Clothesline, A Memoir.
Ani grew up on a back-road chicken farm, the daughter of Holocaust survivors. At the age of eight, she began writing to an invisible companion, filling page after page with her questions about a world darkened by the shadow of the Holocaust. But there was also the ecstasy of rain, the dance of the willow, the gleaming stars. Writing about it all in the silent, unconditional embrace of nature became Ani’s path to the light.
Ani lives in New England, where she relishes meditation, the changing seasons, her changing grandchildren, and inspiring others to find and free their voices.
Learn more about Ani at www.anituzman.com. [134 words]
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Full Bio:
Ani Tuzman is an award-winning poet, writing mentor, and author of The Tremble of Love: A Novel of the Baal Shem Tov and Angels on the Clothesline, A Memoir.
Ani grew up on a back-road chicken farm, the daughter of Holocaust survivors. At the age of eight, she began writing to an invisible companion, filling page after page with her questions about a world darkened by the shadow of the Holocaust. But there was also the ecstasy of rain, the dance of the willow in the wind, the stars illuminating the night sky. Writing about it all in the silent, unconditional embrace of nature became Ani’s path to the light.
Ani’s deep appreciation for the gifts of writing, coupled with her desire to nurture the spirits and creativity of children, led her to found the Dance of the Letters Writing Center, where for over 40 years she has provided welcoming and joyous spaces for people of all ages to find and free the voices of their hearts through writing.
Being awakened to the practice of meditation proved the perfect complement to writing, revealing a direct path to the inner wellsprings of love and creativity.
Along the way, Tuzman became captivated by legends of an eighteenth-century Eastern European mystic rabbi known as the Baal Shem Tov. A Kabbalist, he taught that divine sparks are hidden everywhere, and it is one’s sacred duty to find and free the energy in these sparks whose essence is love. When Ani turned fifty, she experienced an inner call to write about this spiritual master. Her literary, historical novel The Tremble of Love: A Novel of the Baal Shem Tov, is the response to that call.
The Tremble of Love: A Novel of the Baal Shem Tov, a work of transformative fiction, is a testament to the inextinguishable fire of love. Although people and their institutions may be devastated, as was the case with Eastern European Jewry and with other cultures throughout history, the human capacity to love and to heal cannot be defeated.
Ani’s unexpected memoir Angels on the Clothesline is an intimate account of vulnerability, creativity, and irrepressible resilience. Written in compelling vignettes, Angels on the Clothesline arouses awe for the human spirit—revealing how easily we can wound and be wounded and, through all this, choose to love. Although a very different book from her novel, both books invite readers into an experience of the compassionate love that can free us.
Ani lives in New England, where she relishes meditation, long walks in the changing seasons, her changing grandchildren, meditation, and inspiring others to find and free their voices.
Learn more about and connect with Ani at www.anituzman.com. [445 words]
Angels on the Clothesline
Angels on the Clothesline, A Memoir. Book description of various lengths
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The weight of grief, fear, and bigotry. The imprint of trauma. The wonder and light that no measure of darkness can extinguish. Angels on the Clothesline, A Memoir is an intergenerational story of irrepressible resilience.
[35 words]
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The daughter of Holocaust survivors and recent immigrants, Ani Tuzman grows up in a world darkened not only by her parents’ unfathomable grief and rage, but also by the bewildering bigotry of her American neighbors.
When Ani, the woman, bridges time to be the presence missing from her childhood, what opens up is an intimate account of vulnerability, creativity, and irrepressible resilience.
Told with tender and unflinching immediacy, Ani’s story is an invitation to embrace ourselves and each other with the compassion that can free us.
[86 words]
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The daughter of Holocaust survivors and recent immigrants, Ani Tuzman grows up in a world darkened not only by her parents’ unfathomable grief and rage, but also by the bewildering bigotry of her American neighbors.
In her memoir, Angels on the Clothesline, Ani, the woman, bridges time to be the presence missing from her childhood. What opens up is an intimate account of vulnerability, creativity, and irrepressible resilience. We witness, despite the burden of trauma, a child’s innate wonder that will not be extinguished and ultimately protects her.
Written in compelling vignettes, Angels on the Clothesline arouses awe for the human spirit—revealing how easily we can wound and be wounded and, through all this, choose to love.
[118 words]
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The daughter of Holocaust survivors and recent immigrants, Ani Tuzman grows up in a world darkened not only by her parents’ unfathomable grief and rage, but also by the bewildering bigotry of her American neighbors, schoolmates, and teachers. Yet on the farm that is her home, Ani can’t help but find beauty and joy.
Ani doesn’t tell her parents that every day on the school bus her hair is searched for her Jew-Devil horns. She also doesn’t dare talk about the ecstasy of spinning in a meadow, the solace of writing to an unseen companion, or about any of the other secret sorrows and joys she believes that she has no right to feel.
In her memoir, Angels on the Clothesline, Ani, the woman, bridges time to be the presence missing from her childhood. What opens up is an intimate account of vulnerability, creativity, and irrepressible resilience. We walk in young Ani’s shoes, see through her eyes, and witness, despite the burden of trauma, a child’s innate wonder that will not be extinguished and ultimately protects her.
Written in compelling vignettes, Angels on the Clothesline arouses awe for the human spirit—revealing how easily we can wound and be wounded and, through all this, choose to love. Told with tender and unflinching immediacy, Ani’s story is an invitation to embrace ourselves and each other with the compassion that can free us.
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The Tremble of Love
The Tremble of Love: A Novel of the Baal Shem Tov. Book description of various lengths
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The Tremble of Love: A Novel of the Baal Shem Tov
A novel inspired by the legendary spiritual master, Rabbi Yisroel ben Eliezar, known as the Baal Shem Tov, the Good Master of the Name, who beckoned forth love from the hearts of rag pickers, ruby merchants, midwives, and murderers. Set in the richly textured Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth of the 1700s, this exquisite reimagining of one of history’s most revered and revolutionary mystics transports readers back in time to experience the true meaning of power and the timeless grace of love.
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The Tremble of Love: A Novel of the Baal Shem Tov
A novel inspired by the legendary spiritual master, Rabbi Yisroel ben Eliezar, known as the Baal Shem Tov, the Good Master of the Name, who beckoned forth love from the hearts of rag pickers, ruby merchants, midwives, and murderers.
Poor orphan. Simpleton. Harder to tame than the wind.
He hears what they call him.
But he listens to the presence his father promised would never leave him.
Yisroel finds his way to those who nurture his healing gifts and rare compassion—until he embraces a destiny he cannot yet fathom nor deny any longer.
Honoring women, children, and the poor as his teachers. Celebrating life’s simplest deeds as worship. Praying with joyous abandon. Loving without condition. Yisroel’s “irreverent” practices threaten the established authorities, among them an embittered rabbinic leader with a mission of his own: to destroy the irrepressible master known as the Baal Shem Tov and his growing community of followers.
Set in the richly textured Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth of the 1700s, this exquisite reimagining of one of history’s most revered and revolutionary mystics transports readers back in time to experience the true meaning of power and the timeless grace of love.
[202 words]
Host Ani
Ani is available for book readings, interviews, and to facilitate Dance of the Letters Writing Circles* in person and online.
*Dance of the Letters Writing Circles are welcoming spaces in which to find and free not only one’s voice, but also one’s heart. Ani delights in working with people of all ages.
With the release of her memoir, Angels on the Clothesline, Ani is enthused about offering Writing Circles inspired by themes in the book. One overarching and particularly powerful writing spark is “I see you.”
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