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Jennifer Michael Hecht is a poet, historian, and commentator. Her new book on poetry and how we live is The Wonder Paradox: Embracing the Weirdness of Existence and the Poetry of Our Lives, is out with Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.

Hecht has three award-winning books of poetry, including Who Said (Copper Canyon, 2013) and Funny (Wisconsin, 2005) and four books of history and philosophy, including the bestseller, Doubt (HarperOne, 2003), a history of unbelief all over the world, through history. Her book, Stay, is a history of suicide and a secular argument against it (Yale, 2013).

Hecht's poetry and prose appear in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New Republic, Poetry, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Politico, The American Scholar, and Vox. Hecht has a Ph.D. in The History of Science and European Cultural History, from Columbia University and has taught history and poetry widely including in the graduate programs at the New School and Columbia.

She has been a featured guest of many NPR shows, including multiple appearances on the Brian Lehrer Show and On Being, and some television, such as Hardball MSNBC and Huffington Post Live. She lectures widely.

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