ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Gertrude Rubin's poetry springs from her Chicago Roots. She studied at Northeastern Illinois University on the Northwest side of Chicago. She received an MFA degree from the Writers Program at The University of Illinois at Chicago in 1978. She was active in the Poets Club of Chicago and Poets and Patrons, a poetry organization in Chicago.

Her work has been published in numerous anthologies. She won Grand Prize in the Indiana State Poetry Contest in 1986.

She is also the author of The Passover Poems, published in 1991.