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Deborah Bacharach

Writing Tutor

Birth Year
b. 1966
Current City
Seattle, Washington, USA
Birth City
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Genre(s)
Poetry, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism
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Photo credit: Photo Credit: Timothy Aguero

Biography

Deborah Bacharach is the author of two full length poetry collections Shake & Tremor (Grayson Books, 2021) and After I Stop Lying (Cherry Grove Collections, 2015). Her poems, book reviews and essays have been published in journals nationally and internationally including Poetry Ireland Review, New Letters and Poet Lore. Educated at Swarthmore College and the University of Minnesota, she is a college writing instructor, editor, and tutor in Seattle.

Published Works

Shake & Tremor (Grayson Books, 2021)
After I Stop Lying (Cherry Grove Collections, 2015)

Links to Sample Works

Subject Matter

Aging, Antisemitism, Art & Ekphrasis, Childhood, Cultural Identity, Death, Diaspora, Family, Friendship, Gender, Jewishness, Loss, Love, Marriage, Midrash, Misogyny, Motherhood/Fertility, Parenting, Politics, Sex, Sexuality, Torah, War, Whiteness, Other, Math and/or Physics, Feminism, LGBTQ+.