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Wendy Mnookin's most recent book, DINNER WITH EMERSON, was published by Tiger Bark Press in 2016. DINNER WITH EMERSON won a "Poetry Must Read" Award (2016) from the Massachusetts Center for the Book.
Previous books are THE MOON MAKES ITS OWN PLEA, WHAT HE TOOK, and TO GET HERE, published by BOA Editions, and GUENEVER SPEAKS, a book of persona poems.
Mnookin's poems have been published in journals, including The Beloit Poetry Journal, Bellevue Literary Review, Harvard Review, Prairie Schooner, Salamander, Solstice, The Sun, and Wisconsin Review; in online publications, including Poetry Daily, Rattle "Poets Respond", Writer's Almanac (Garrison Keillor), and Vox Poopuli; and in antholgies, including Boomer Girls: Poems by Women from the Baby Boom Generation, Essential Love: poems about Mothers and Fathers, Daughters and Sons, Proposing on the Brooklyn Bridge: Poems about Marriage, and Urban Nature: Poems about Wildlife in the City.
Mnookin has taught poetry in the Boston area at Emerson College, Boston College, and Grub Street, a non-profit writing program, as well as at elementary and high schools, in private classes, and at writing workshops around the country, including Bend, Oregon; Dallas, Texas; and Chautauqua, New York. She now heads up the Poetry Roundtable at the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement.
She received an NEA Fellowship in Poetry, and WHAT HE TOOK won the 2002 Sheila Motton Award from the New England Poetry Club. A graduate of Radcliffe College, she received her MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Mnookin lives with her husband in Cambridge, Massachusetts.