Wendy Mnookin is the author of The Moon Makes Its Own Plea and three other collections, What He Took and To Get Here, from BOA Editions, and Guenever Speaks, a collection of persona poems. Her poems appear in journals such as The Greensboro Review, Harvard Review, POOL, Prairie Schooner and Rhino. She has won a book award from the New England Poetry Club and a Poetry Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Mnookin graduated from Radcliffe College and the Vermont College MFA Program. She teaches poetry at Emerson College and at Grub Street, a non-profit writing center in Boston. She and her husband live in Newton, Massachusetts, where they raised their three children. Her poetry website is www.wendymnookin.com. (Author photo by Elissa Arons)
