Rachel Rothenberg
Rachel Rothenberg was born in Edison, New Jersey. She holds degrees in English and Lusophone literatures from Tufts University and Brown University and is currently a doctoral candidate in creative writing at the University of Rhode Island. She is the 2023 winner of the Greg Grummer Poetry Contest, and her work is featured or forthcoming in phoebe, About Place Journal, Harbor Review, Crab Creek Review, and Salt Hill. She is the Senior Associate Editor at Barrow Street Press.
Reading List
Blessings Over the Bodies of My Father’s Murderers
May your mothers find you whole. May the sky hold your bodies unbroken as the light before the flood. May our makers never demand we row out beyond the deluge. May their every promise hold. May moonlight replace the flash and howl of the alarms. May the water tenders sluice the fires […]