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)
Mnookin and her husband live in Newton, Massachusetts, where they raised their three children. Besides reading and writing, she loves walking, gardening, cooking, eating and napping, not necessarily in that order.
Wendy Mnookin contributed an essay about her son’s drug addiction, the subject of the poems in To Get Here, to Salon magazine's "Mothers Who Think" department:
http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/1999/08/27/heroinmom/index.html
Press Materials for Wendy Mnookin
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Books by Wendy Mnookin:
To Get Here
The Moon Makes Its Own Plea
What He Took
