Toxic, 2001 American Book Award, Body Toxic, 2001 NAMI/Ken Johnson Award, A Mind Apart, 2006 Pushcart Prize, Hosts, 2012 Bibliography Creative Nonfiction Make Me A Mother New York, NY: (W.W. Norton, 2014) A Mind Apart: Travels in a Neurodiverse World New York, NY: (Tarcher/Penguin, 2005) (reprinted 2007; ) Body Toxic: An Environmental Memoir New York, NY: (Counterpoint, 2001) Body Toxic: An Environmental Memoir (Korean translation, Yeesaw Publishers (Gyeonggi-Do, Korea), 2005) Poetry collections The Lives of the Saints Seattle, WA: (University of Washington Press, 2002) Bardo Madison, WI: (University of Wisconsin Press, 1998) Glass Princeton, NJ: (Quarterly Review of Literature Poetry Award Series, 1995) Petitioner Seattle, WA: (Owl Creek Press, 1986) Textbooks Tell It Slant: Creating, Revising and Publishing Creative Nonfiction (2nd edition of "Tell It Slant: Writing & Shaping Creative Nonfiction") with coauthor Brenda Miller. New York, NY: (McGraw-Hill, 2012) Tell It Slant: Writing & Shaping Creative Nonfiction with coauthor Brenda Miller. (trade edition, McGraw-Hill, 2004) Tell It Slant: Writing & Shaping Creative Nonfiction with coauthor Brenda Miller. (McGraw-Hill, 2003) See also Rachel Carson Sandra Steingraber Radium Girls References External links Bookreporter.aol.com – Body Toxic Chapter One (excerpt) Gelmans.com – 'Woman Looks Back at Her Toxic N.J. Youth', Candy J. Cooper (February 20, 2002) NYTimes.com – 'Poison: The author recounts how she was shaped by a girlhood that was, quite literally, toxic', reviewed by Michael Pollan, New York Times (June 24, 2001) SpiritualityandPractice.com – Body Toxic: An Environmental Memoir, reviewed by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat TidePool.org – Body Toxic: An Environmental Memoir, reviewed by Christian Martin (2001) 1956 births Living people American essayists American women essayists People from New Jersey American women poets 21st-century American memoirists American women memoirists Oberlin College alumni Poets from Georgia (U.S. state) People with bipolar disorder American Book Award winners 21st-century American women