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Alicia Jo Rabins

Poet, composer, performer, Torah teacher / makes multi-genre feminist works of experimental beauty

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Alicia Jo Rabins works in multiple genres including poetry, music, theater, film, and creative ritual.

Alicia Jo Rabins is an award-winning writer, musician, performer and Jewish educator. The New York Times calls her voice “gorgeous”; the San Francisco Chronicle calls her writing “a poetry page-turner, both sexy and humble.” She is the author of Even God Had Bad Parenting Days, a collection of personal essays about early parenthood and Jewish texts and traditions (Behrman House, fall 2022), as well as the poetry books Divinity School (winner of the 2015 APR/Honickman First Book Prize) and Fruit Geode (finalist for the 2018 Jewish Book Award). Rabins is the creator and star of A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff, an independent feature film about the intersection of finance and mysticism, which the Atlantic calls "a blessing"; the film garnered awards from the Ashland International Film Festival, Port Townsend Film Festival and Sarasota Independent Film Festival. As a musician, Rabins has released three albums with Girls in Trouble, her indie-folk song cycle about Biblical women; toured across Central America and Kuwait playing bluegrass fiddle as a cultural ambassador for the US State Department; and was the violinist in NYC’s klezmer-rock band Golem for eight years.

Rabins holds a MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College and a MA in Jewish Women's Studies from the Jewish Theological Seminary. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and two children. Find her at www.aliciajo.com.


Learn More: http://www.aliciajo.com