Rachel Zucker

Rachel Zucker is an American poet born in New York City in 1971. She is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently, The Pedestrians (Wave Books 2014). She also co-edited the book Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections with fellow poet, Arielle Greenberg.

Early life

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]

Career

She teaches graduate and undergraduate poetry classes at New York University’s Creative Writing Program and 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] Her poem, "In Your Version of Heaven I Am Younger" was featured in the anthology, The Best American Poetry (2001).[3]

Personal life

Zucker lives in New York City with her husband and three sons[4] and teaches at New York 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 accolades
  • National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship (2013)[6]
  • Bagley Wright Lecture Series, Lecturer (2016)[7]
  • Salt Hill Poetry Award (1999), judged by C.D. Wright)
  • Barrow Street Poetry Prize (2000)
  • Center for Book Arts Award (judged by Lynn Emanuel)
  • "Museum of Accidents" was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.[8]

Bibliography
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Poetry
  • SoundMachine (Wave Books, 2019)
  • The Pedestrians (Wave Books, 2014)
  • Museum of Accidents (Wave Books, 2009)
  • The Bad Wife Handbook (Wesleyan University Press, 2006)
  • The Last Clear Narrative (Wesleyan University Press, 2004)
  • Eating in the Underworld (Wesleyan University Press, 2003)

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. (2010). Starting today : 100 poems for Obama's first 100 days. University of Iowa Press. ISBN 9781587298714, OCLC 730002674
  • Zucker, Rachel & Greenberg, Arielle, eds. (2008). Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections. University of Iowa Press. ISBN 9781587297212, OCLC 940893477

Non-fiction
  • MOTHERs (Counterpath Press, 2014)
  • Home/Birth (1913 Press, 2010)

Critical studies and reviews

References
  1. "Extended Bio". RachelZucker.net. Retrieved September 19, 2014.
  2. "Commonplace: Conversations with Poets (And Other People)".
  3. Hass, Robert (2001). The Best American Poetry. New York: Scribner Poetry. ISBN 9780743203845.
  4. "Rachel Zucker". Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation. 2018-03-19. Retrieved 2018-03-19.CS1 maint: others (link)
  5. "Rachel Zucker". Wave Books. Retrieved September 19, 2014.
  6. "NEA Announces Creative Writing Fellowships". Poets & Writers. 2012-11-29. Retrieved 2018-03-19.
  7. "Bagley Wright Lecture Series". Retrieved 2018-03-19.
  8. McClane, Maureen. Critical Mass: The Blog of the National Book Critics' Circle Board of Directors http://bookcritics.org/blog/archive/30_books_in_30_days_museum_of_accidents_by_rachel_zucker/. Retrieved 3 March 2018. Missing or empty |title= (help)
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