Alicia Jo Rabins is an award-winning performer, musician, poet, and Jewish scholar. Author of Even God Has Bad Parenting Days, published by Behrman House, she has also written articles for Kveller, Ecotone Magazine, Tablet Magazine, and American Poetry Review, among others. Rabins graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Barnard College (Creative Writing), holds an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson and an MA in Jewish Women's and Gender Studies from the Jewish Theological Seminary. She lives in Portland, Oregon.