Rachel Zucker is the author of The Poetics of Wrongness (Wave Books, 2023), SoundMachine (Wave Books, 2019), The Pedestrians (Wave Books, 2014), and Museum of Accidents (Wave Books, 2009), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. A graduate of Yale University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Zucker is an adjunct professor at NYU and other places. She was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in 2012, a Sustainable Arts Fellowship in 2016, and residencies from The MacDowell Colony and the Vermont Studio Center in 2018. Zucker is mother to three sons and lives in Washington Heights, NY and Scarborough, ME.

• ContentsThe Poetics of Wrongness, an UnapologiaWhat We Talk about When We Talk about the Confessional, and What We SHOULD Be Talking AboutA Very Large Charge: the Ethics of ‘Say Everything’ PoetryWhy She Could Not Write a Lecture on the Poetics of MotherhoodOutro

"Her clean, tempered prose style is an ideal delivery system for her weaponized observations."—Chicago Tribune"Rachel Zucker may be Generation X’s likeliest heir to the confessional legacy of Sylvia Plath, Louise Glück, and Sharon Olds."—The Believer"Zucker renders even the simplest inquiries—such as 'hasn’t anyone tried to stop this?'—resonant and profound in this restless and thoughtful book."—starred review for SOUNDMACHINE, Publishers Weekly

Rachel Zucker is the author of The Poetics of Wrongness (Wave Books, 2023), SoundMachine (Wave Books, 2019), The Pedestrians (Wave Books, 2014), and Museum of Accidents (Wave Books, 2009), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. A graduate of Yale University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Zucker is an adjunct professor at NYU and other places. She was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in 2012, a Sustainable Arts Fellowship in 2016, and residencies from The MacDowell Colony and the Vermont Studio Center in 2018. Zucker is mother to three sons and lives in Washington Heights, NY and Scarborough, ME.

• ContentsThe Poetics of Wrongness, an UnapologiaWhat We Talk about When We Talk about the Confessional, and What We SHOULD Be Talking AboutA Very Large Charge: the Ethics of ‘Say Everything’ PoetryWhy She Could Not Write a Lecture on the Poetics of MotherhoodOutro

"Her clean, tempered prose style is an ideal delivery system for her weaponized observations."—Chicago Tribune"Rachel Zucker may be Generation X’s likeliest heir to the confessional legacy of Sylvia Plath, Louise Glück, and Sharon Olds."—The Believer"Zucker renders even the simplest inquiries—such as 'hasn’t anyone tried to stop this?'—resonant and profound in this restless and thoughtful book."—starred review for SOUNDMACHINE, Publishers Weekly

Rachel Zucker is the author of The Poetics of Wrongness (Wave Books, 2023), SoundMachine (Wave Books, 2019), The Pedestrians (Wave Books, 2014), and Museum of Accidents (Wave Books, 2009), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. A graduate of Yale University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Zucker is an adjunct professor at NYU and other places. She was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in 2012, a Sustainable Arts Fellowship in 2016, and residencies from The MacDowell Colony and the Vermont Studio Center in 2018. Zucker is mother to three sons and lives in Washington Heights, NY and Scarborough, ME.

• ContentsThe Poetics of Wrongness, an UnapologiaWhat We Talk about When We Talk about the Confessional, and What We SHOULD Be Talking AboutA Very Large Charge: the Ethics of ‘Say Everything’ PoetryWhy She Could Not Write a Lecture on the Poetics of MotherhoodOutro

"Her clean, tempered prose style is an ideal delivery system for her weaponized observations."—Chicago Tribune"Rachel Zucker may be Generation X’s likeliest heir to the confessional legacy of Sylvia Plath, Louise Glück, and Sharon Olds."—The Believer"Zucker renders even the simplest inquiries—such as 'hasn’t anyone tried to stop this?'—resonant and profound in this restless and thoughtful book."—starred review for SOUNDMACHINE, Publishers Weekly