1/16/2014: Mazel Tov to Joan Seliger Sidney, whose latest collection of poetry, Bereft and Blessed, will be published some time in the coming year by Antrim Press. JOAN SELIGER SIDNEY is writer-in-residence at the University of Connecticut’s Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life. She also facilitates “Writing for Your Life,” an adult writing workshop. Her dream-came-true job was teaching creative writing at the Université de Grenoble, France.