Marge Piercy has written 17 novels including The New York Times Bestseller Gone To Soldiers; the National Bestsellers Braided Lives and The Longings of Women; the classics Woman on the Edge of Time and He, She and It; and most recently Sex Wars. Among her 20 volumes of poetry the most recently published is On the Way Out, Turn Off the Light. Her critically acclaimed memoir is Sleeping with Cats. Born in center city Detroit, educated at the University of Michigan and Northwestern, the recipient of four honorary doctorates, she is active in antiwar, feminist and environmental causes.

 
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Marge Piercy is not just an author, she’s a cultural touchstone. Few writers in modern memory have sustained her passion, and skill, for creating stories of consequence.
— The Boston Globe
 
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My new book, THE HOUR OF MY DEATH will come out in fall 2026 from Sibylline Press. It’s a much-edited journal of the year after I died and was revived. It’s part narrative, part poems, part short essays and favorite recipes throughout. I consider it my legacy. It’s a lot how my mind works.

Although many people continue to ask, I’m sorry to report that I will no longer be holding my June intensive poetry workshops.  I have greatly enjoyed working with the poets who have taken it in the past and will go on reading books most of them have published after the workshop.  I was glad to help so many of them reach a higher level.  I will miss the workshop, but it was time to end it.  Some poets want to work with me individually in person or via ZOOM and that is sometimes possible.

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