Rachel Zucker is the author of THE POETICS OF WRONGNESS (Wave Books, 2023), Soundmachine (Wave Books, 2019), THE PEDESTRIANS (Wave Books, 2014), and MUSEUM OF ACCIDENTS (Wave Books, 2009), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. A graduate of Yale University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Zucker is an adjunct professor at NYU and other places. In 2016 she was a Bagley Wright Lecturer and wrote and delivered a series of talks on poetry, photography, confessionalism, motherhood, and the ethics of representing real people in art. She is the founder and host of the Commonplace Podcast.