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Rachel Zucker is an American poet born in New York City in 1971. She is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently, SoundMachine (Wave Books 2019). She also co-edited the book Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections with fellow poet, Arielle Greenberg.

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Biography

Rachel Zucker was born in New York City in 1971. The daughter of storyteller Diane Wolkstein and novelist Benjamin Zucker, she was raised in Greenwich Village and traveled around the world with her parents on Wolkstein's folktale-collecting trips. After high school, Zucker attended Yale University where she majored in Psychology, focusing on Child Development, though she took as many literature, writing and photography classes as she was allowed. Zucker later went on to the Iowa Writers' Workshop where she received her M.F.A. in poetry. [1]

She teaches graduate and undergraduate poetry classes at New York University's Creative Writing Program and in Antioch University's Low-Residency MFA program. She has taught at Yale and served as poet in residence at Fordham University (2005–2007). [1]

Zucker is creator and host of the podcast Commonplace: Conversations with Poets (and Other People). [2] She is currently working on an immersive audio project called SoundMachine, accompanying her 2019 collection of the same name. [3] Her poem, "In Your Version of Heaven I Am Younger" was featured in the anthology, The Best American Poetry 2001 (edited by Robert Hass).

Zucker lives in New York City and Scarborough, Maine with her husband and three sons [4] and teaches at New York University and Antioch University. [5] She holds certifications as a labor doula from the Doulas of North America (DONA) and as a collaborative childbirth educator (CCE) from the Childbirth Education Association of Metropolitan New York. Since that time she has aided many women during labor, birth and postpartum and through her doula work and her writing, advocates for universal access to maternity care. [1]

Awards and honors

Bibliography

Poetry

Anthologies

  • H.L. Hix, ed. (2008). New Voices: Contemporary Poetry from the United States. Irish Pages. ISBN   978-0-9544257-9-1.
  • Zucker, Rachel; Greenberg, Arielle, eds. (2008). Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections. University of Iowa Press. ISBN   9781587297212. OCLC   940893477.
  • Zucker, Rachel; Greenberg, Arielle, eds. (2010). Starting today : 100 poems for Obama's first 100 days. University of Iowa Press. ISBN   9781587298714. OCLC   730002674.

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Critical studies and reviews

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