Rachel DeWoskin

Rachel DeWoskin is the award-winning poet and author of two poetry collections, absolute animal and Two Menus (The University of Chicago Press); five novels, Someday We Will Fly (PRH); Banshee (Dottir); Blind (PRH); Big Girl Small (FSG); Repeat After Me (Overlook); and the memoir Foreign Babes in Beijing (W. W. Norton). Her awards include an Academy of American Poets Award, a National Jewish Book Award, a Sydney Taylor Book Award, an American Library Association Alex Award and Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Prize. DeWoskin’s poems and/or essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Ploughshares, The Baffler, Seneca Review, The New Delta Review, New Orleans Review and New Voices from the Academy of American Poets. DeWoskin is a curator of Poetry for One, a Goodman Theater poet, and the Creator and Director of the Illinois 900 Million Poem Project. She serves on the national steering committee of Writers for Democratic Action (WDA) and is the Chair of IL-Writers for Democratic Action.