Phyllis Joffe

Phyllis Joffe (1943/1944 – August 17, 2002) was an American radio and television producer, journalist and educator. She was a regular contributor to the NPR programs Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Weekend Edition. She taught journalism at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City, as well as at Wesleyan University and Quinnipiac University in Connecticut. From 1994 until her death, she co-produced radio poetry readings and interviews for the Connecticut-based Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, alongside writer Nancy Cobb and sound technician David Budries.

Education She graduated from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and earned a master's degree in child psychology from Southern Connecticut State University.

Death Joffe died on August 17, 2002, in Astoria, New York, from cardiac arrhythmia.