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A widely published poet and essayist who also was a beloved public school teacher in New York for over two decades, Diana Goetsch lived at odds with who she knew she was, a journey to gender realization and transition that she writes of powerfully and movingly in This Body I Wore: A Memoir (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). This virtual appearance should be a great opportunity to hear her read from and discuss this book, which is on the ‘Most Anticipated’ lists of many publications. “Lyrical, harrowing, and wise. This Body I Wore, the story of one woman doing everything she can to avoid becoming herself, is a universal and profound meditation on the price of authenticity.”—Jennifer Finney Boylan. “Goetsch fashions a brilliant and tapestried story of her late-in-life gender transition . . . A gorgeous self-portrait that defies categorization. The result obliterates binary confines around gender with breathtaking finesse.”—Publishers Weekly. “In This Body I Wore, Diana Goetsch the poet is present in every line of prose. The writing is spacious, beautiful, precise, and poignant. The reader floats through the sentences, entranced. ‘Magnificent’ is not an overstatement.”—Thomas Peele.

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