Marge Piercy is the author of 17 books of poetry, including The Crooked Inheritance, published by Knopf last November. They also published Colors Passing Through Us, What Are Big Girls Made Of? and The Art of Blessing the Day. Her most recent novel of 17, Sex Wars, is now in Perennial Paperback [HarperCollins], as is her memoir Sleeping with Cats. A CD of her political poetry Louder We Can't Hear You Yet is out from Leapfrog Press, as is the 2nd enlarged edition of So You Want to Write: How to Master the Craft of Fiction and Personal Narrative, co-authored with Ira Wood.