Rachel Richardson is the author of Smother (W. W. Norton, 2025) and two earlier poetry collections, Copperhead and Hundred-Year Wave. She is co-founder of the community writing center Left Margin LIT in Berkeley, as well as a former Wallace Stegner and NEA Fellow. Her poems have appeared in The New York Times, The Yale Review, APR, and elsewhere. In 2024 she was named an inaugural Artists-in-Fire Resident through the Confluence Lab, and is now trained as an FFT2 wildland firefighter.
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