Myra Shapiro

Myra Shapiro, born in the Bronx, returned to New York City after forty-five years in Georgia and Tennessee. Her books of poetry are I'll See You Thursday and 12 Floors Above the Earth, her memoir, Four Sublets: Becoming a Poet in New York. Her poems have appeared in many periodicals and anthologies, most recently The New Yorker, and twice, in Best American Poetry. She serves on the Board of Directors of Poets House and teaches poetry workshops for the International Women’s Writing Guild.

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