Alicia Ostriker, major American poet and critic, has been twice nominated for a National Book Award and has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation.  She is the author of eleven volumes of poetry, most recently, No Heaven (2005).  She has written two path-breaking volumes on women’s poetry and published two books on the Bible.  Ostriker’s poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Antaeus, The Nation, American Poetry Review, The Atlantic, and many other journals.  Her poetry and essays are translated into seven languages, and she has lectured and given performances of her work throughout the USA, as well as in Europe, Australia, Israel, Japan and China.  Her most recent prose book is Dancing at the Devil’s Party:  Essays on Poetry, Politics and the Erotic.  Ostriker is Professor Emerita of Rutgers University and is a faculty member of the New England College Poetry MFA Program.  She taught in the Princeton University Creative Writing Program and in Toni Morrison’s Atelier Program.  She taught workshops in Israel, England, and Australia.  Reviews and critics are effusive in their praise of her work.