Starting Today

by Zucker, Rachel

• ISBN13: 9781587298714
• ISBN10: 1587298716
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-04-09
• Publisher: Univ of Iowa Pr

Summary

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Author Biography

Rachel Zucker is the author of four books of poetry, including Museum of Accidents and The Bad Wife Handbook, and is coeditor, with Arielle Greenberg, of Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections (Iowa, 2008). She teaches poetry, is a certified labor doula, and is studying to become a childbirth educator. Arielle Greenberg is the author of My Kafka Century and Given and coeditor of the forthcoming Gurlesque, with Lara Glenum. She is an associate professor at Columbia College–Chicago.