Rachel Richardson
Rachel Richardson is co-founder of the community writing center Left Margin LIT in Berkeley. She is also the author of Smother (W. W. Norton, 2025) and two earlier poetry collections, Copperhead and Hundred-Year Wave (Carnegie Mellon University Press). A former Wallace Stegner and NEA Fellow, she serves on the Board of The Frost Place. Her poems have appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Yale Review, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. In 2024 she was named an inaugural 2024 Artists-in-Fire Resident through the Confluence Lab, and is trained as an FFT2 wildland firefighter.
Where to find me at the festival
May 30, 2026 -
How to Find (& Create) Your Literary Community
