Lead Instructor and Literary Editor

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Yeyduh Kleiner

currently known in non-memoir writing as

Fish

(Yeyduh is a loose phonetic approximation of “Jade” with a soft J - Jade, Jada, Yeyduh)

Founder, Jan 3, 2025, at the Foundry in Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA, at the event “Haiku Advance against Mass Incarceration” dedicated to Etheridge Knight and Issa. She believes Etheridge Knight is the first and currently sole English-language haiku master.

Current CFO, Literary Editor, and AV + livestream lead.

Yeyduh is 29 years old and graduated with a Bachelors of Science from the Commonwealth Honors College of the University of Massachussets, Amherst with a 3.8 GPA, as well as a Certificate of Specialization in Creative Writing.

She was the primary editor and financial supervisor of Surreal Times Amherst from its second bihex to her graduation. She founded Surreal Times Boston which lasted about six months and closed when the Pandemic began, which initiated her teleteaching career.

Overall, she has teletaught over 80 creative writing classes at the 100 or higher collegiate equivalent level since 2018, as well as 9 in person haiku, flash fiction, and lyric essay workshops at professional pay scale. She was recommended to work at Boston Public schools by a co-facilitator in early 2024, and settled on freelance teaching following her medical recovery in 2025. Her next move will likely be to a rural area in 2026.

She has never had a legal address further than a twenty minute walk from the T:

Oak Grove, Warren Street, Red Line 2020-2023, Davis 2024, Red Line-

She also completed pro-grade translations of:

a single Confucian analect (1.5 years of research)

the First Noble Truth (she puts it as to “do the breathing thing is uncertain”), six months of discussion and research

the Heart of the Perfection of Wisdom Sutra after one year of research and an informal consult with Avi Magidoff of the Order of Interbeing

and most recently, the first five lines of the Gospel of Mark, which took one month of research and one month of meditation. Her home gospel is the Gospel of John.

Full creative and professional resume

Yeyduh’s upcoming manuscript of new free verse and metric poetry, To Be Sick, has 14 pages complete of a goal ninety, with around 40 pages written but requiring editing. She is seeking a publisher for that book in 2026, as well as any publisher interested in her debut novel, "Empty! Clutch your womb!” which is a sequel to her free, self published 50,000 word haibun, “Wolf-Road to the End of Time.”

She has also announced and begun performing a second manuscript of sonnet length epistolaries titled “Letters to Shuntarō” in which she writes letters to the dead Peanuts translator. She modeled her current career path after local Old Path leader and member of the Order of Interbeing, Yenkeui

She has also self-published the meta-narrative “Hum of the Skychanger” assisted by Oliver Burnett in 2023, which costs 5 dollars in person or online, pending upload to this site.

She has completed National Novel Writing month three out of four attempts. Her last complete was her self published haibun, Wolf-Road to the End of Time, which is about eugenics and her transition, and which she completed in 18 days during November 2023 while her step grandmother died of cancer. It was her Ma’s second maternal cancer death. Ma is Masshole for “Mom.” Her Dad is her Dad. He worked on the fucking Hubbel. She also has a sister with a dog, an Aunt, and a step ma from Brazil. She speaks English and began reading, writing, and speaking simply in German during December 2024 with the slight East German accent she heard as a kid.

Yeydhu’s published poems can currently be found under her new legal name, Jade Kleiner, in Neologism, Gingerbread Ritual, The Orchards, and New Note Poetry.

Her old name, Paul, is a matter of public record and she posts it occasionally on her public socials. Many trans people would refer to this as their “dead name.” She accepts this term as well. She is proud of her heritage. Her middle name is not public facing.

Her actual neologisms can be found in the 2023 issue of the Cantabernacle. She tied with two other slam poets for the 2023 “Pushing the Art Form Forward” at the Northbeast Regional hosted by Boston Poetry Slam. She is also the Chief Strategy Officer of the Trident Poetry Collective. She currently identifies as a “slam-adjacent” Brutalist writer, free verse poet, musician and artist out of Greater Boston who also writes metric poetry.

She is a graduate of the second ever NITEO class at the Boston University Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation. Following the misdiagnosis of her gender dysphoria at 15, she has tapered off three psychiatric medications, crossed off two mood disorders, an eating disorder, and pre-diabetes from her list of problems. She is now socially, medically, and legally transitioned has guest instructed once a semester, health willing, at the Center for the NITEO program. She assists in numerous Zoom and in-person literacy and English language learning efforts in Boston, including as a volunteer tutor in the final year of the Adult Diploma Pathway program via Jewish Vocational Services.

She has formerly worked as a camp counselor, occasional maintanence person, and Arts and Crafts + Woodshop and Plastics sheds counselor at Camp Calumet Lutheran. Karl and Knute are the men, period. She was a CIT in 2012, then did all seven weeks as a J.C before experiencing health issues and returning home for care during staff week. She went on to finish weeks 1-5 and Wuster (“Worcester” in writing) for SC and SSC Summers. She declined to apply for P.U.D.D.L.E and recieved First Aid, Waterfront Life Guard + Wilderness First Responder certifications from C.C.L then SOLO Schools respectively. Her legal duty to act in case of injury two hours march from a road ended in January 2021. She was in Melrose for the bombing.

She took the Quaker Vow of Testimony in 2019 after six unprogrammed meetings at Friends Meeting Cambridge, began Plum Village practice in 2020, and was an active member of 1st Parish Unitarian Universalist Church in Cambridge, MA from 2023 to 2025, spanning her first long term relationship, visual gender de-transition due to lithium toxicity, her maternal grandmother’s death from cancer, and the launch of this site. She is currently a peripheral UU and member of Old Path Sangha in Boston, as well as an interfaith activist.

Quaker, Friend, Buddhist, Zen, and Low Church Christian all adequately describe her faith, she accepts the teachings of Jesus as described by Leo Tolstoy, some Low Church and Black Christianity, and all Plum Village Dharma as credal. She is religious, not spiritual.

One year after her grandma’s death her literary style is Brutalism.