student spotlight: betsy rosenthal

I just got an e-mail from Betsy Rosenthal who was a student ten years ago (and I still remembered her first published essay – a wonderful piece about suddenly becoming her own mother when she had kids). She wrote me that she’s had a collection of poetry for kids, My House is Singing, published by Harcourt and her second book is coming out this month, It’s Not Worth Making a Tzimmes Over, published by Albert Whitman. She’s also had essays published in the L.A. Times, the Christian Science Monitor, Mothering Magazine, etc. She wrote: “There’s something miraculous about seeing your book in a bookstore, knowing that it all started as an idea in your head. It’s like being pregnant and giving birth. The idea grows and matures and eventually, if you’re lucky, you get to bring it out into the world. And you realize that it was worth all the pain to get to that point.”

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