About Rachel Zucker

Rachel Zucker is the author of ten books, most recently her hybrid collection SoundMachine, examining marriage, motherhood, grief, depression, and sex; her memoir, MOTHERs, which details her relationship with her mother and various female mentors; and The Pedestrians, a double collection of prose and poetry. Her collection Museum of Accidents was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2009. Her other books include: The Bad Wife Handbook, The Last Clear Narrative, and Eating in the Underworld. With poet Arielle Greenberg, Zucker co-edited two anthologies and co-wrote Home/Birth: a poemic, a non-fiction book about birth, friendship and feminism. Zucker received a National Endowment of the Arts fellowship in 2013. She lives in New York City and Maine.

Zucker currently teaches poetry at New York University and in Antioch University’s Low-Residency MFA program. She is currently working on an immersive audio project (also called SoundMachine). In 2016 Zucker wrote and delivered a series of lectures on the intersection of poetry, confession, ethics and disobedience as part of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series, which will be published in a forthcoming collection called The Poetics of Wrongness. For more information visit her author website. On Twitter, she's @rachzuck.