Rachel Moritz is the author of the poetry books Borrowed Wave (Kore Press, 2015) and Sweet Velocity (Lost Roads Press, 2017). She’s also the co-editor of a collection of personal essays, My Caesarean: Twenty-One Mothers on the C-Section Experience and After (The Experiment, 2019). Rachel’s work has appeared in American Letters and Commentary, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Iowa Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Water~Stone Review, and other journals. Among her awards are fellowships from the Jerome Foundation and the Minnesota State Arts Board, most recently a 2017 Artist Initiative grant in prose. Her work received a notable citation in Best American Essays 2019. Rachel earned an MFA in Poetry from the University of Minnesota and lives with her family in Minneapolis.
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