As the Other Women

This is a book about a woman's desire to be a woman, and how she fulfills it just by being herself. A woman needs love, and she needs to be recognized by other women as the fully realized woman that she is. This is poetry of love, fulfillment,

recognition, desire, and need.

Sophia Marshall is a perceptual poet, characterized by her treatment of the senses. She has been compared to e.e. cummings, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Emily Dickinson, and Sappho. She is a credentialed journalist and music critic, as well as a poet, with credits in several jazz journals and other music publications, and she has published letters on politics in The Boston Phoenix. She has a blog, The Flash Boston (theflashboston.com), covering Boston music and culture. She is a transgender woman. She lives in Boston.