Rachel Moritz is a queer poet, essayist and teaching artist 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.

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. Rachel develops experiences for museum exhibits, more info. here. She also works with the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop as Program Associate and Mentor Program Director.