Rachel Mennies is the author of the
poetry collections The Wolf (BOA Editions, forthcoming fall 2027);
The Naomi Letters (BOA Editions, 2021);
The Glad Hand of God Points Backwards, the 2014 winner of the Walt McDonald First-Book Prize in Poetry at Texas Tech University Press and finalist for a National Jewish Book Award; and
No Silence in the Fields, a chapbook from Blue Hour Press. Her poetry has recently appeared at
Poetry Magazine, The Believer, Kenyon Review, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. Rachel's
essays, criticism, and other articles have appeared, or will soon, at
The Millions, The Poetry Foundation,
LitHub, and numerous other outlets.