Rachel Dilworth received her MA in Creative Writing from the University of California at Davis and her BA from Yale. Her poems have appeared in TriQuarterly, AGNI Online, American Literary Review, Chautauqua, Spoon River Poetry Review, and elsewhere. She has been the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to Ireland for creative writing, a Jack Straw Writers Program residency, Yale's Clapp Fellowship for poetry, scholarship support from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, commendation in the UK National Poetry Competition, a Dorothy Prize, and other awards.