Jack Litewka

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Jack Litewka was born in New York City of WWII immigrant parents and spent his public school years in Los Angeles. He earned a B.A. at U.C., Berkeley (English and History major) and an M.F.A. (Poetry) at Columbia University’s School of the Arts, where he studied with Adrienne Rich and Stanley Kunitz. He is the author of two chapbooks – How the Conversation Began (Momo’s Press) and The Dolphin and the Piano (Neon Sun Press) – and of a number of essays. As an undergraduate, he won first prize in the Ida Coolbrith Memorial Poetry Contest and was also the recipient of a Woodrow Wilson Fellow. He has worked as a taxi driver, management consultant, deli and fish department manager at a coop supermarket, director of a training organization for nonprofits and coops, baker in a bakery collective, managing director of a small publishing house, ergonomics consultant, editor (of magazines and of over 40 books), and director of webteams at Microsoft, among other positions. He is the inventor of a number of products and training devices, and holds three patents, one of which won an industrial design award. He has served on the boards of directors of the ACLU of Washington, Women Against Violence/Emergency Services (Berkeley), Men Against Domestic Violence (New Haven), and the Berkeley Men’s Center. For the past 7 years he has managed website teams at Microsoft Corporation. He is married to Jane W. Ellis (fiction writer, psychoanalyst, and former professor of law), and they visit their 3.5-year-old granddaughter and 7-month-old grandson, whom they adore beyond words, as often as possible. <June 2005>

 

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Hargreaves, William, Rempel, David, Halpern, Nachman (Manny), Markison, Robert, Kroemer, K. H. E. and Litewka, Jack (1992): Toward a More Humane Keyboard. In: Bauersfeld, Penny, Bennett, John and Lynch, Gene (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 92 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference June 3-7, 1992, Monterey, California. pp. 365-368. Available online

 

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