Minna Zallman Proctor

Wellesley High School Writer: Minna Zallman Proctor (1988)

            Minna is a writer, translator, and educator who since 2008 has been editor-in-chief of the internationally respected and influential TLR (The Literary Review).  Her books are: Do You Hear What I Hear? (a reviewer writes, “No one who is telling you a story is trying to be alone, Proctor writes, and what great company she is as she darts and dives into the beautiful wreck of a brilliantly adventurous life”); the memoir Landslide: True Stories (Kirkus writes, “intelligent and intellectually provocative, though also respectful: a notable example of fine writing on religion”); translations of Fleur Jaeggy’s These Possible Lives and Natalia Ginzburg’s Happiness, As Such; and an autobiography collaboration with soprano Bethany Beardsley I Sing the Unsingable: My Life in Twentieth Century Music.  She teachers creative writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University.  Her website is: www.minnaproctor.com.