Jane Anne Staw, Ph.D., has taught writing at Stanford University, The University of Iowa, and currently teaches at the UC Berkeley Extension School and The University of San Francisco MFA Program in Writing. She also works with writers individually, overcoming writing block. She is the author of "Unstuck: A Supportive and Practical Guide to Working Through Writer's Block". A published poet with an M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Iowa, she lives in Berkeley, California.