EXCLUSIVE: Poet Theresa Stern Takes Classicalite's Mini-Proust Questionnaire

Theresa Stern was born on October 27, 1949, of a German Jewish father and a Puerto Rican mother in Hoboken, N.J., directly across the Hudson from New York City.

She still lives there, alone, where all the poems in her book WANNA GO OUT? were written over a four month period in the summer and fall of 1971.

She has since devoted that of her time not spent in flipping coins to composing a love story, THIN SKIN.

It describes the murder, in ten chapters fired by Theresa, of her closest friend.