The Refusal

Work has Appeared in Canadian and U.S. journals, including Poet Lore, Barrow Street, Room of One's Own, and The Paris Review, and has been featured in Poetry Daily and in a new anthology, Chance of a Ghost. She is editing an anthology, Survival of the Soul: Artists Living with Illness. Her awards include two Academy of American Poets awards and a Pushcart nomination. Brody, a modern analyst in private practice, (L.C.S.W., Columbia University), also teaches American Literature at Boricua College in Harlem. Her New York City-raised children are twenty, fifteen, and ten. Her father, who was a pioneering teacher and author in the field of psychosomatic medicine, worked with cancer patients and was recognized in both the medical and the psychoanalytic communities. He was the president and founding officer of both N.A.A.P. and N.P.A.P.