Janet Sternburg is the author of
White Matter: A Memoir of Family and Medicine(Hawthorne Books, reviewed in
LARB here). Her previous memoir,
Phantom Limb (American Lives, University of Nebraska) is also at the intersection of personal life and neuroscience. Other books include
Optic Nerve: Photopoems (Red Hen Press) and the two volumes of
The Writer on Her Work (W.W. Norton). A fine art photographer. Sternburg has exhibited her work in solo shows in Berlin, Korea, New York, Mexico, Los Angeles, and Milan. Her photography publications include Aperture and two monographs, both published by Distanz Verlag (Berlin):
Overspilling World: The Photographs of Janet Sternburg (2016), and this month,
I've Been Walking: Janet Sternburg Los Angeles Photographs (September, 2021).