Alicia Jo Rabins is a poet, musician and Torah teacher. She is the author of two books of poetry, Fruit Geode and Divinity School (winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize), and a book of personal essays about Jewish spirituality and early parenthood, Even God Had Bad Parenting Days.  Rabins is the creator and performer of Girls in Trouble, a feminist indie-folk song cycle about women in Torah, and the art film A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff, currently available on-demand in North America. She lives in Portland, OR with her partner, two children, and just-on-the-edge-of-too-many houseplants.