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Marge Piercy and Ira Wood

Marge Piercy

The Hunger MoonMarge Piercy is the author of eighteen poetry collections and seventeen novels, and her work has been translated into nineteen languages. Her latest books are Pesach for the Rest of Us: Making the Passover Seder Your Own (Schocken, 2011) and The Hunger Moon: New & Selected Poems 1980—2010 (Knopf, 2011). In 2002, Harper Perennial released her memoir, Sleeping with Cats. She has also co-authored with Ira Wood So You Want To Write: How to Master the Craft of Fiction and Personal Narrative. Learn more at margepiercy.com.

See p. 68 in the fall 2012 issue to read the latest work of Marge Piercy.

Ira Wood

Cecilia PintoWOMR-FM, Cape Cod’s Community Radio Station. His short pieces have been published in Ploughshares, Tikkun, and Fifth Wednesday Journal, among many other literary magazines. In 1996 he and Marge Piercy established the Leapfrog Press, an internationally distributed “boutique” publishing company, which they sold in 2007. You’re Married to HER?, his new book of autobiographical essays, was released in August 2012. For more about Ira Wood visit irawood.com.

See p. 216 in the fall 2012 issue for Adam Gallari’s review of Ira Wood’s latest book.