Jan Steckel[1] is a San Francisco Bay Area-based writer of poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction, who is also known as an activist in the bisexual community and an advocate on behalf of the disabled and the underprivileged.
Later she studied Golden Age Spanish Literature at Oxford University on a Henry Fellowship through 1984.
Steckel's speciality was in pediatrics, in which she completed her residency at Children's Hospital Boston in July 1997.
Steckel served for a time in the Peace Corps as a volunteer in the Dominican Republic; upon her return to the States, she cared for Spanish-speaking families in California at a county hospital and at a large HMO.
Steckel, openly bisexual,[4] lives in Northern California with her husband Hew Wolff, who has collaborated on some of her poetry.