Play on Words: Conversation with the Poet Rachel dewoskin

Rachel DeWoskin is the award-winning author of five novels, two poetry collections and the memoir Foreign Babes in Beijing. She won a National Jewish Book Award, a Sydney Taylor Book Award, an American Library Association’s Alex Award and an Academy of American Poets Award. Foreign Babes in Beijing, Someday We Will Fly, and Banshee are being developed for feature film or TV, and DeWoskin’s work has appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Ploughshares, The Baffler and New Voices from the Academy of American Poets. DeWoskin serves on the national steering committee of Writers for Democratic Action (WDA).