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Susan Eisenberg is a poet, visual artist, oral historian, licensed electrician, and Resident Artist/Scholar at the Brandeis Women's Studies Research Center.¿She is also curator of the online exhibition, ¿On Equal Terms: Gender and solidarity. Her most recent book is the reissued We'll Call You If We Need You: Experiences of Women Working Construction. Visit¿susaneisenberg.com for more information.

Angry at how her grandmother erased the past, Susan Eisenberg, in these plainspoken, not-for-the-faint-of-heart, resists the historical amnesia and denial American culture propagates."--Eleanor Wilner, author.

That transformation did not happen. In this book, Eisenberg weaves the voices of 30 women who worked as carpenters, electricians, ironworkers, painters and plumbers to examine why their numbers remained small. Speaking as if to a friend, the women recall their decisions to enter the trades, their first days on the job and their strategies to gain training and acceptance. They assess, with thought, passion and 20 years perspective, the affirmat...

Poems in this volume bring readers through the construction site gate alongside the women who practice a skilled trade in a dangerous industry. Assured and impassioned, the poems not only manifest outer events and day-to-day realities of the worksite but also expose through metaphor and resonant detail its high-voltage interior life.Susan Eisenberg's early poems were private responses to the experiences of her apprentice years as an electricia...

Poet and visual artist Susan Eisenberg's fourth collection lyrically explores the particular doctor-patient relationships, medical experiences, encounters, and adjustments of longterm chronic illness. Perpetual Care takes the reader from "whirlpools/of symptoms that shifted shape, " through diagnosis of lupus and thyroid cancer, to navigate between scares and dailiness. Striking fine art photographs of her medication bottles traversing a Victo...