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Marion Deutsche Cohen is the author of 32 collections of poetry or memoir; her newest book is “Not Erma Bombeck: Diary of a Feminist 70s Mother” and her latest poetry collections are “The Essence of Seventh Grade: A Kind of Autobiography” and “The Discontinuity at the Waistline: My #MeToo Poems”. She is also the author of two controversial memoirs about spousal chronic illness, a trilogy diary of late-pregnancy loss, and “Crossing the Equal Sign”, about the experience of mathematics. She teaches a course she developed, Mathematics in Literature, at Drexel University

Nina Gross is a violist who teaches and performs in the Connecticut River Valley. Nina lives in Greenfield, Massachusetts where she spends her time writing poetry, prose, music and dialogue. She is a former writer of the fourth grade Weekly Reader, a mother of two adult children and a Yale grad with degrees in Anthropology, Afro-American Studies and Sociology.  Her poetry essays and monologues have been included in anthologies and presentations of the Straw Dog Writers’ Guild, the UU Women Writers group, Local Access to Valley Arts (LAVA) and Fade to Black

A librarian, educator, and researcher, Deborah Turner now writes and prose full-time. Her debut poetry book, Sweating It Out (2020) features her collection of sports poetry. Her writing also appears in the Lavender Reader, Philadelphia Stories, and the anthologies Testimony (Beacon Press) and The Body Eclectic (Henry Holt). For information about Sweating and her other works, please refer to Deborah’s website at http://www.deborahturner.online/verse/

Alina Macneal & Jennifer Hook, Hosts

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