Books By Marcia Slatkin - Author

Marcia Slatkin, a former English teacher, is currently a photographer, photo-collagist, and cellist. She lives in Rhinebeck, New York, with her longtime partner, Dan Maciejak, a farmer and landscape architect. They grow vegetables and flowers, cook, and worry about politics. Her three full-length poetry books have been published over the past two decades. A Woman Milking, Barnyard Poems (Word Press, 2006) focuses on a decade of goat-milking and cheese-making on a ¾-acre Long Island suburban plot. Not Yet, A Care-Giving Collage (SFA State University Press, 2012) describes four healing years during which she cared for her mother, an Alzheimer's patient. Cheese After Fukushima: Poems for a Changing Planet (SFASU Press, 2017) aims to instill active awareness of climate change. Her one-act plays, many of which were produced in off-off Broadway theatres in the 90s, are not yet published. The stories in this current volume revolve around a familiar human scenario: you get hurt, scarring causes mistakes, but hopefull