Alicia Jo Rabins
Alicia Jo Rabins is a writer, composer, musician, performer and Torah teacher based in Portland, Oregon.
DIVINITY SCHOOL, Alicia's first book, was awarded the prestigious 2015 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize, selected by C.D. Wright, and was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. Her second book, FRUIT GEODE, is forthcoming from Augury Books/Brooklyn Arts Press in October 2018.
Alicia holds a MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College and a MA in Jewish Women's and Gender Studies from the Jewish Theological Seminary. She is the recipient of awards and scholarships from Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and Bread Loaf Writers Conference.
Alicia was born in Portland Oregon, moved to the East Coast at four months old, met and married a Portlander who was passing through Brooklyn, and now is back in her birthplace with her husband and their two little kids. Alicia is also an internationally touring singer, violinist and songwriter. Her musical projects include Girls in Trouble, her indie-folk song cycle about the women of Torah, and an original one-woman chamber-rock opera, A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff, which is now being made into a feature film. She loves coffee, gardening, herbal medicine, Torah, feminism, and peaty scotch, and is currently at work on a spiritual memoir.
DIVINITY SCHOOL, Alicia's first book, was awarded the prestigious 2015 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize, selected by C.D. Wright, and was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. Her second book, FRUIT GEODE, is forthcoming from Augury Books/Brooklyn Arts Press in October 2018.
Alicia holds a MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College and a MA in Jewish Women's and Gender Studies from the Jewish Theological Seminary. She is the recipient of awards and scholarships from Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and Bread Loaf Writers Conference.
Alicia was born in Portland Oregon, moved to the East Coast at four months old, met and married a Portlander who was passing through Brooklyn, and now is back in her birthplace with her husband and their two little kids. Alicia is also an internationally touring singer, violinist and songwriter. Her musical projects include Girls in Trouble, her indie-folk song cycle about the women of Torah, and an original one-woman chamber-rock opera, A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff, which is now being made into a feature film. She loves coffee, gardening, herbal medicine, Torah, feminism, and peaty scotch, and is currently at work on a spiritual memoir.
