The Crooked Inheritance

Marge Piercy has published seventeen novels, most recently Sex Wars, from William Morrow Paperbacks, and the republishing of two early novels, Dance the Eagle to Sleep and Vida from PM Press, with introductions by Piercy, and a new collection of short stories, The Cost of Lunch, Etc. She is the author of twenty poetry collections, most recently On The Way Out, Turn Off the Light from Knopf. She published a memoir, Sleeping with Cats and five nonfiction books. Her CD of feminist and other political poems is called Louder, we can't hear you (Yet!). Her work has been translated into twenty-three languages. She has given over 570 readings, speeches, and/or workshops here and abroad. Piercy has been active in feminist, left, and environmental causes since high school. She shares her home on Cape Cod with her beloved Ira Wood and three cats.