The chapbook. based on months of travel in Spain and Morocco with her late husband Fernando Alonso, touches on the writer's personal vision as well as the religious and cultural histories and surprises they encounter.
Nina Rubinstein Alonso's poetry and stories have appeared in Ploughshares, The New Yorker, U. Mass. Review, Writing in a Woman's Voice, Nixes Mate, Ibbetson Street, Broadkill Review, Southern Women's Review, Peacock Journal, Sumac, Wilderness House, The New Boston Review, Pensive Journal, Taj Mahal Review, etc. Her book This Body was published by David Godine Press, her story collection A Dancer's Notebook and a novel Balancing on One Leg are in the works. She's the editor of Constellations: a Journal of Poetry and Fiction about to publish issue #11. She taught at Boston Ballet for eleven years and continues as director and teacher of Fresh Pond Ballet.
