Poet and novelist Marge Piercy was born in Detroit, Michigan on March 31, 1936. She received a B. A. from the University of Michigan and an M. A. from Northwestern. She is involved in the Jewish renewal and political work and was part of the civil rights movement. She won the Arthur C. Clarke award. Besides writing her own novels and collections of poetry, she has collaborated with her husband Ira Wood on a play, The Last White Class, and a novel, Storm Tide. In 1997, they founded a small literary publishing company called the Leapfrog Press. She currently lives in Cape Cod.Hannah Senesh, poet and Israels national heroine, has come to be seen as a symbol of Jewish heroism. Safe in Palestine… during World War II, she volunteered for a mission to help rescue fellow Jews in her native Hungary. There, she was captured by the Nazis, endured imprisonment and torture and was finally executed at the age of 23.
Marge Piercy is the author of sixteen novels including Gone to Soldiers; He, She and It; Three Women ; and most recently The Third Child . Her memoir is called Sleeping with Cats. She has also written sixteen volumes of poetry including The Art of Blessing the Day: Poems with a Jewish Theme and most recently Colors Passing Through Us . She received an honorary doctorate degree from Hebrew Union College for her contributions to Jewish culture and liturgy.
Eitan Senesh is Hannah Seneshs nephew and is chairman of The Hannah Senesh Legacy Foundation, whose aim is to perpetuate the memory of Hannah Senesh and her comrades.