Poetry Pushcart nominee and Temple University Professor Lisa Grunberger is a first-generation American artist who writes about motherhood, war, and women. Her full-length poetry book, For the Future of Girls was nominated for an Eric Hoffer Independent Book Award. A widely published poet and essayist, her work has appeared in The New York Times, Hanging Loose Press, The Southern Review, and The Laurel Review. She has been translated into Spanish, Slovenian, Yiddish and French. Her play about technology and loneliness as a public health crisis, Alexa Talks to Rebecca, won the Audience Choice Award at the Squeaky Bicycle Theatre in NYC. ALMOST PREGNANT, her play about motherhood and IVF is published by Next Stage Press. “Dreaming of Exile,” her collaborative art exhibit, with Argentinian artist Perla Bajder, premiered in Buenos Aires in 202. She’s working on a memoir called The Girl in the Sailor Suit: A Memoir of Genetic Inheritance and Jewish Identity