Rachel Moritz (she/her) is a poet and essayist based in Minneapolis. She’s the author of Borrowed Wave (Kore Press, 2015), a finalist for the National Poetry Series and the Minnesota Book Award in poetry. Her second book of poetry, Sweet Velocity, won the 2016 Besmilr Brigham Women Writer’s Award from Lost Roads Press. She’s also the co-editor of a collection of personal essays, My Caesarean: Twenty-One Mothers on the C-Section Experience and After (The Experiment, 2019), which won the Foreword INDIES Award in Silver.

Rachel’s work has appeared in American Letters and Commentary, Aufgabe, Colorado Review, DIAGRAM, Iowa Review, Tupelo Quarterly, VOLT, Under the Gum Tree, Water~Stone Review, and other journals. Her poems and critical writing have been featured in Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, Verse Daily, and in the anthologies Queer Nature (Autumn House Press, 2022), Rocked by the Waters: Poems of Motherhood (Nodin Press, 2020), Uncoverage: Asking After Recent Poetry (Essay Press, 2015), and Jean Valentine: This World Company (University of Michigan Press, 2012). She’s received a 2019 Best American Essay Notable mention as well as awards, grants, and residencies from the Academy of American Poets, the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Jerome Foundation, Everwood Farmstead, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts.