SoundMachine

About Rachel Zucker

Rachel Zucker is the author of many books including SoundMachine (Wave Books 2019) The Pedestrians (Wave Books 2014) and Museum of Accidents (Wave Books 2009) which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is also the co-author (with Arielle Greenberg) of the nonfiction title Home/birth: a poemic and co-editor (also with Arielle Greenberg) of Starting Today: 100 Poems for Obamas First 100 Days and Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections (both from the University of Iowa Press). A graduate of Yale University and the Iowa Writers Workshop Zucker currently teaches poetry at NYU. In 2016 she was a Bagley Wright Lecturer and wrote and delivered a series of talks on poetry photography confessionalism motherhood and the ethics of representing real people in art. She was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in 2012 a Sustainable Arts Fellowship in 2016 and residencies from The MacDowell Colony and the Vermont Studio Center in 2018. Zucker lives in NYC with her husband and three sons.