Mai Lon Gittelsohn

Mai Lon Gittelsohn

Mai Lon Gittelsohn teaches memoir writing to seniors in Del Mar and Encinitas. A native Californian, she grew up in Berkeley and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1956. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Oregon’s Pacific University with a focus on poetry in June, 2012. Her poems have appeared in the San Diego Poetry Annual, the Patterson Literary Review, the Hummingbird Review, the Magee Park Poets Anthology, the Raven Chronicles, Section 8 Magazine, and The Second Genesis, An Anthology of Contemporary World Poetry. Her chapbook, “Chop Suey and Apple Pie,” was published by Finishing Line Press in May, 2014.