I Would Make It as a Woman

This is a book of hope and aspiration, of a woman's dreams of becoming herself and being accepted being realized, and a woman making it. Making it as herself. Sophia Marshall has been compared to e.e. cummings, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Emily Dickinson, and Sappho. She has published forty books, including 36 poetry books, two books of stories, and two books criticism. She is a credentialed journalist and music critic as well as a poet, with credits in many journals and magazines. She is also an author of fiction. She is a transgender woman. She lives in Boston.