Background
Marcia Aldrich was born and raised in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
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During the 1950s, in a car, on the floor, in an alley, the vulnerable, tough-minded narrator is born. The last of four laughters, she grows up in the wake of tragedy -- her sister's death by drowning -- under the authority of her mother's ideas of proper cleanliness, posture, and feminine destiny.
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1998
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2012
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Waveform: Twenty-First-Century Essays by Women celebrates the role of women essayists in contemporary literature. Historically, women have been instrumental in moving the essay to center stage, and Waveform continues this rich tradition, further expanding the dynamic genre's boundaries and testing its edges.
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Marcia Aldrich was born and raised in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Marcia graduated from Pomona College, in Claremont, California, and went on to earn her doctorate in English at the University of Washington.
From 2008 to 2011 Marcia Aldrich edited Fourth Genre, one of the premiere literary journals featuring personal essays and memoirs. Her first published work was memoir Girl Rearing. Several of the memoir essays from Girl Rearing were selected for recognition as Notable Essays in the Best American Essay's series, and one “Hair” was published in The Best American Essays, selected by Joseph Epstein.
Since the publication of Girl Rearing, Aldrich has continued writing personal essays which have been published in places such as Gettysburg Review, North American Review, The Seneca Review, and others. In 2013 her essay “The Art of Being Born,” originally published in Hotel Amerika, was selected by Cheryl Strayed for inclusion in The Best American Essays.
Her another book, Companion to an Untold Story, about a man’s premeditated suicide and a friend’s struggle to come to terms with his act, was published by the University of Georgia Press in 2012.
Aldrich currently teaches creative writing at Michigan State University. She is now at work on Haze, a narrative of marriage and divorce during her college years. She is also editing a collection of essays by contemporary women, Waveform: Twenty-First Century Essay By Women.
(Waveform: Twenty-First-Century Essays by Women celebrates...)
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