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About the Book

About the Author

Evelyn Wexler is a former English teacher and guidance counselor. Her work has been accepted for publication in many literary journals such as negative capability and Nimrod. A prizewinner in several contests, she is the 1990 recipient of The Bronx Council on the Arts grant for excellence in poetry. She has also been awarded a 1995 Bronx Council on the Arts Ace prize in Non-fiction, Literature for excerpts from her Memoir Lost And Found In Budapest (1936-37). Her chapbook of poems, The Geisha House was published in 1992 by Mayapple Press. They also published her another collection of poems Occupied Territory in 1994. She is married and the mother of two sons. As a young child she was catapulted from New York to Budapest Hungary. This experience triggers much of her work.