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Marge Piercy (née le 31 mars 1936) est une poète, romancière, et militante américaine. Ses travaux s'intitulent Woman on the Edge of Time; He, She and It, récompensé en 1993 par un Arthur C. Clarke Award; et Gone to Soldiers, grand roman historique qui prend place lors de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale et qui figure dans le New York Times Best Seller list.

Biographie
Piercy est née à Détroit, dans le Michigan, fruit de l'union entre Bert (Bunnin) Piercy et Robert Piercy. Après être sortie diplômée du Mackenzie High School, Marge fut la première de sa famille a s'inscrire dans une université, l'University of Michigan. L'obtention du Hopwood Award pour "Fiction et Poésie" en 1957 lui permit de finir ses études universitaires et de passer quelque temps en France. Elle obtient une maitrise universitaire des lettres de Northwestern University et son premier recueil de poèmes, Breaking Camp, fut publié en 1968.

Étudiante lambda au cours des premières années, Piercy développa un vif intérêt pour les livres et la lecture when she came down with rheumatic fever in her mid-childhood and could do little but read. "It taught me that there's a different world there, that there were all these horizons that were quite different from what I could see".

Piercy was a significant feminist voice in the New Left and Students for a Democratic Society.

Écriture
Piercy is author of more than seventeen volumes of poems, among them The Moon is Always Female (1980, considered a feminist classic) and The Art of Blessing the Day (1999), as well as fifteen novels, one play (The Last White Class, co-authored with her third and current husband Ira Wood), one collection of essays (Parti-colored Blocks for a Quilt), one non-fiction book, and one memoir. She contributed the pieces "The Grand Coolie Damn" and "Song of the fucked duck" to the 1970 anthology Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings From The Women's Liberation Movement, edited by Robin Morgan.

Her novels and poetry often focus on feminist or social concerns, although her settings vary. While Body of Glass (published in the US as He, She and It) is a science fiction novel that won the Arthur C. Clarke Award, City of Darkness, City of Light is set during the French Revolution. Other of her novels, such as Summer People and The Longings of Women are set during the modern day. All of her books share a focus on women's lives.

Woman on the Edge of Time (1976) mixes a time travel story with issues of social justice, feminism, and the treatment of the mentally ill. This novel is considered a classic of utopian "speculative" science fiction as well as a feminist classic. William Gibson has credited Woman on the Edge of Time as the birthplace of Cyberpunk. Piercy tells this in an introduction to Body of Glass. Body of Glass (He, She and It) (1991) postulates an environmentally ruined world dominated by sprawling mega-cities and a futuristic version of the Internet, through which Piercy weaves elements of Jewish mysticism and the legend of the Golem, although a key story element is the main character's attempts to regain custody of her young son.

Many of Piercy's novels tell their stories from the viewpoints of multiple characters, often including a first-person voice among numerous third-person narratives. Her World War II historical novel, Gone To Soldiers (1987) follows the lives of nine major characters in the United States, Europe and Asia. The first-person account in Gone To Soldiers is the diary of French teenager Jacqueline Levy-Monot, who is also followed in a third-person account after her capture by the Nazis.

Piercy's poetry tends to be highly personal free verse and often addresses the same concern with feminist and social issues. Her work shows commitment to the dream of social change (what she might call, in Judaic terms, tikkun olam, or the repair of the world), rooted in story, the wheel of the Jewish year, and a range of landscapes and settings.

Activisme
In 1977, Piercy became an associate of the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press (WIFP). WIFP is an American nonprofit publishing organization. The organization works to increase communication between women and connect the public with forms of women-based media.

Vie privée
She lives in Wellfleet with her husband, Ira Wood.

Romans

 * Going Down Fast, 1969
 * Dance The Eagle To Sleep, 1970
 * Small Changes, 1973
 * Woman on the Edge of Time, 1976
 * The High Cost of Living, 1978
 * Vida, 1980
 * Braided Lives, 1982
 * Fly Away Home, 1985
 * Gone To Soldiers, 1988
 * Summer People, 1989
 * He, She And It (aka Body of Glass), 1991
 * The Longings of Women, 1994
 * City of Darkness, City of Light, 1996
 * Storm Tide, 1998 (with Ira Wood)
 * Three Women, 1999
 * The Third Child, 2003
 * Sex Wars, 2005

Nouvelles

 * The Cost of Lunch, Etc., 2014

Collections de poèmes

 * Breaking Camp, 1968
 * Hard Loving, 1969
 * "Barbie Doll", 1973
 * 4-Telling ( with Emmett Jarrett, Dick Lourie, Robert Hershon), 1971
 * To Be of Use, 1973
 * Living in the Open, 1976
 * The Twelve-Spoked Wheel Flashing, 1978
 * The Moon is Always Female, 1980
 * Circles on the Water, Selected Poems, 1982
 * Stone, Paper, Knife, 1983
 * My Mother's Body, 1985
 * Available Light, 1988
 * Early Ripening: American Women's Poetry Now (ed.), 1988; 1993
 * Mars and her Children, 1992
 * What are Big Girls Made Of, 1997
 * Early Grrrl, 1999.
 * The Art of Blessing the Day: Poems With a Jewish Theme, 1999
 * Colours Passing Through Us, 2003
 * The Hunger Moon: New and Selected Poems, 1980-2010, 2012
 * Made in Detroit, 2015

Collected other

 * "The Grand Coolie Damn" and "Song of the fucked duck" in Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings From The Women's Liberation Movement, 1970, edited by Robin Morgan
 * The Last White Class, (play co-authored with Ira Wood), 1979
 * Parti-Colored Blocks For a Quilt, (essays), 1982
 * The Earth Shines Secretly: A book of Days, (daybook calendar), 1990
 * So You Want to Write, (non-fiction), 2001
 * Sleeping with Cats, (memoir), 2002
 * My Life, My Body (Outspoken Authors), (essays, poems & memoir), 2015