JACQUELINE LAPIDUS (b.1941) grew up in New York City and lived abroad for more than 20 years, first in Greece, then in France where she was active in international feminist groups.  A lifelong editor, teacher and translator currently living in Boston, she has worked on magazine staffs as well as on business and scholarly books and the 1998, 2005 and forthcoming 2011 editions of Our Bodies, Ourselves as a freelance consultant.  She holds degrees from Swarthmore College and Harvard Divinity School. For almost 15 years she taught the writing component of courses on medical issues, information and advocacy at Harvard Extension School and Suffolk University. 

   Jacqueline Lapidus's poems have appeared in numerous periodicals and anthologies and in three previous collections: Ready to Survive, Starting Over and Ultimate Conspiracy.  She has completed a new book of poems, Significant Other, and compiled (with co-editor Lise Menn) an anthology of poems (and a few prose poems) by contemporary widows, The Widows' Handbook. Both manuscripts are available for publication.