Jason Sommer

Jason Sommer is an American poet and academic born in the late 1950s, son of a Hungarian Holocaust survivor. He is the author of five poetry collections published by prestigious presses like the University of Chicago's Phoenix Poets series, with awards including the Society of Midland Authors Award for Other People’s Troubles, a Whiting Award, and others; he also wrote the memoir Shmuel’s Bridge about traveling with his father to Holocaust sites. He taught English at Fontbonne University for 30 years and lives in St. Louis, Missouri.