Author Diana Goetsch Discusses "This Body I Wore"
Acclaimed author Diana Goetsch will speak at a special after-hours event at 6 p.m. Wednesday, June 21, at the Park Central Branch Library, 128 Park Central Square.
She will read from her memoir “This Body I Wore,” which the New York Times Book Review called “achingly beautiful,” and invite discussion. “This Body I Wore” chronicles one woman’s long journey to coming out, a path that runs parallel to the emergence of the trans community over the past several decades.
Her book was a 2023 American Library Association Notable Books List selection and named a Best Book of 2022 by The Washington Post.
Goetsch is an American poet and essayist, author of eight collections of poems, and the “Life in Transition” blog at The American Scholar. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Best American Poetry, and the Pushcart Prize anthology.
Her honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the New School, where she served as the Grace Paley Teaching Fellow. For 21 years Goetsch was a New York City public school teacher, at Stuyvesant High School and at Passages Academy in the Bronx, where she ran a creative writing program for incarcerated teens.
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