Books By Alicia Suskin Ostriker - Author

Alicia Suskin Ostriker is a major American poet and critic. She is the author of sixteen previous poetry collections, including The Book of Seventy and Waiting for the Light, both winners of the National Jewish Book Award, and The Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog. She has received the Paterson Poetry Prize, the San Francisco State Poetry Center Award, the William Carlos Williams Award, and has twice been a finalist for the National Book Award among other honors. Her critical work includes the now-classic Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women';s Poetry in America, and other books on poetry and on the Bible. A Distinguished Professor Emerita of Rutgers University, Ostriker is currently a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, and the New York State Poet Laureate.