About Me — Joan Gershman
Everything you need to know to inspire you to read my work
I don’t have any exciting pictures of me bungy jumping, parachuting out of a plane, mountain climbing, or some other life-threatening skill to get your attention, so instead, I am going to give you an introduction to a prolific, eclectic, experienced writer. Which in simple language means that I’m an old lady who writes a LOT about a LOT of DIFFERENT stuff.
Here is a little summary of what I am all about.
I spent 25 years in the Education Field. Substitute English teacher; Private English tutor; Special Education Assistant; Speech/Language Therapy Assistant.
For as far back as I can remember, I wrote. I kept hundreds of pages of stories and journal entries hidden away for that “someday” that I would use them to write the next “Great American Novel”.
Although not a word of that novel has been written, I have delved into those stories for inspiration, reworked them, and many of them have become my best-read stories on Medium.
My first published work was in high school. A team of teachers in the English Department of my high school chose me and one other girl to write our school’s news column that appeared every week in Providence, Rhode Island’s…
