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Rachel Edelman

Rachel Edelman

Rachel Edelman‘s poems have appeared in Threepenny Review, Pinch, Southern Humanities Review, Poetry Northwest, and other journals. She earned an MFA in Poetry from the University of Washington, where she was awarded the Loren D. Milliman Fellowship and Academy of American Poets Prize. She writes about poetry of the Anthropocene for the Ploughshares blog. Find more of her work at www.rachelsedelman.com.