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 Wolksteins folktalecollecting trips. After graduating from Yale with a B.A. in Psychology, Zucker attended the University of Iowa where she received her M.F.A in poetry. Zuckers first fulllength collection is Eating in the Underworld 2003, a series of poems that follows the narrative arc of the myth of Persephone. Her second collection, The Last Clear Narrative, 2004 a cross examination of marriage and motherhood. Her third collection, The Bad Wife Handbook is a darkly comic contemplation of married life.

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