Edge

by Marcia Aldrich

Six new essays by acclaimed essayist Marcia Aldrich, the author of the free memoir Girl Rearing, published by W.W. Norton, and of Companion to an Untold Story, which won the AWP Award in Creative Nonfiction. She is the editor of Twenty-First-Century Essays by Women, published by the University of Georgia Press. This chapbook was a finalist in the 2021 New Michigan Press/DIAGRAM Chapbook Contest.

56 pages, Paperback

Published February 8, 2022

About the author

I was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and raised in that very spot by my parents and half sisters, a story told in "Girl Rearing." I graduated from Pomona College, earned a doctorate in English at the University of Washington, and now teach creative writing at Michigan State University. From 2008 to 2011 I edited "Fourth Genre," one of the premiere literary journals featuring personal essays and memoirs. In spring 2010 I was the Mary Routt Chair of Writing at Scripps College in Claremont, California (where I lived in the Hut with goldens Omar and Quin), and in that same year was named Distinguished Professor of the Year by the Presidents Council, State Universities of Michigan.