Alicia Jo Rabins (she/her) is a writer, musician, composer, performer and Torah teacher. The New York Times calls her voice “gorgeous”; the San Francisco Chronicle calls her writing “a poetry page-turner, both sexy and humble.” Alicia is the creator and performer of Girls in Trouble, an indie-folk song cycle about women in Torah which includes three albums and accompanying study guides, and the independent feature film, A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff, which screened at Lincoln Center and won the awards at the Ashland International Film Festival, Port Townsend Film Festival, and Sarasota Film Festival. Rabins is the author of two award-winning poetry collections, Divinity School (APR/Honickman First Book Prize) and Fruit Geode (finalist for the Jewish Book Award), as well as a memoir forthcoming from Schocken Books in 2026. Visit her at www.aliciajo.com.
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