15 Facts About Alicia Ostriker

Alicia Suskin Ostriker was born on November 11,1937 and is an American poet and scholar who writes Jewish feminist poetry.

Alicia Ostriker was called "America's most fiercely honest poet" by Progressive.

Alicia Ostriker grew up in the Manhattan housing projects during the Great Depression.

Alicia Ostriker's father worked for New York City Parks Department.

Alicia Ostriker's mother read her William Shakespeare and Robert Browning, and Alicia began writing poems, as well as drawing, from an early age.

Alicia Ostriker went to high school at Ethical Culture Fieldston School in 1955.

Alicia Ostriker had never thought of that term before and she realized that men were uncomfortable when women wrote about their own bodies.

Alicia Ostriker has been a resident of Princeton, New Jersey.

Alicia Ostriker began her teaching career at Rutgers University in 1965 and has served as an English professor until she retired in 2004.

Alicia Ostriker decided to pursue a career while taking care of her children which was very uncommon during this time.

Alicia Ostriker discusses her husband and her other two children in her poems.

Alicia Ostriker wrote the introduction to Giannina Braschi's Empire of Dreams, a postmodern poetry classic of the Spanish Caribbean.

Alicia Ostriker highlights how there is a lack of feminist spirituality in traditional religions.

Poetry, Alicia Ostriker writes, "can tear at the heart with its claws, make the neural nets shiver, flood us with hope, despair, longing, ecstasy, love, anger, terror".

Alicia Ostriker's poems have appeared in a wide variety of periodicals, including The New Yorker, The Nation, Poetry, American Poetry Review, Paris Review, The Atlantic, Yale Review, Kenyon Review, Iowa Review, Shenandoah Review, Antaeus, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Boulevard, Poetry East, New England Review, Santa Monica Review, Triquarterly Review, Seneca Review, Ms.