Marcia Aldrich teaches creative writing at Michigan State University.
She is the author of Girl Rearing, a collection of linked essays,
published by W.W. Norton and part of the Barnes and Noble Discover New Writers Series. She has had essays appear in The Best American Essays, The Beacon Book of Essays by Contemporary American Women and been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes. Last fall her essay "My Mother's Toenails" appeared in The Best of Brevity and most recently her essay "The Bed of Metamorphosis," originally published in The Fourth Genre, was selected as a Notable Essay of 2006. She is completing a second collection of essays tentatively titled The Mother Bed.