Sherry Reiter
Sherry Reiter, PhD, is a registered poetry and drama therapist and clinical social worker who has been facilitating workshops since the age of eighteen. Although she began as an actress doing voiceovers, she discovered the field of “poetry therapy,” and has taught at the New School for Social Research and Hofstra University. She is director of The Creative “Righting” Center, an international online training center for poetry therapy. She is creator of Poets-Behind-Bars, a long distance program at Indiana State Prison (max security) done with her students. She is co-author of Writing Away the Demons: Stories of Creative Coping Through Transformative Writing.