RACHEL LICHTENSTEIN

Rachel is an author, curator, artist, Reader in English and History at Manchester Metropolitan University and the co-director of the Centre for Place Writing. Her publications include Estuary: Out from London to the Sea (Penguin 2016), Diamond Street: The Hidden World of Hatton Garden (Penguin, 2012), On Brick Lane (Penguin, 2008), Keeping Pace: Older Women of the East End (Women’s Library, 2003), A Little Dust Whispered (2002, British Library) and Rodinsky’s Room (1999, co-authored with Iain Sinclair). Her artwork has been exhibited at the Whitechapel Gallery, the Barbican Art Gallery and many other venues nationally and internationally. Her submission for PLACE 2020 explores a place of erasure, the lost world of the Polish shtetl where her family once lived.