Jill Rosenthal
Jill Rosenthal has been writing poetry, fiction and personal essays for fifteen years, and is the author of numerous published film reviews and Halftime, a feature-length screenplay optioned by two major studios. She has taught poetry classes at UC Berkeley and currently works closely with Get Lit, an educational non-profit recently honored at the White House for its work teaching at-risk teens to perform classic poetry and their own spoken word responses. When she is not writing, Jill practices law in Los Angeles and takes care of her brilliant and profound 11-year-old daughter, Shelby Rose. View her public performance of an original humorous poem about explaining sex to Shelby entitled “Avoiding Penetration.”