Originally from Tennessee, Rachel Morgan now lives, teaches, and writes in Iowa. She is the author of the chapbook, Honey & Blood, Blood & Honey (Final Thursday Press 2017). She is a co-editor of Fire Under the Moon: An Anthology of Contemporary Slovene Poetry (Black Dirt Press) and her work is included in the anthology, Fracture: Essays, Poems, and Stories on Fracking in America (Ice Cube Press 2016). Her work recently appears or is forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Prairie Schooner, Journal of the American Medical Association, Denver Quarterly, Salt Hill, Bellevue Literary Review, Shenandoah, DIAGRAM, Barrow Street, Hunger Mountain, among others. Her work has been nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology and a Pushcart Prize. She's received a fellowship from Vermont Studio Center and was a finalist for 2017 National Poetry Series. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Currently she teaches at the University of Northern Iowa and is the Poetry Editor for the North American Review. She is a recipient of a residency at Gullkistan, Center for Creativity in Iceland and the winner of the 2020 Fineline Competition.
Selected Awards & Recognitions
- Winner of the 2023 Language of the Land Poetry Fellowship at Rockvale Writers’ Colony
- Winner of the 2022 My Time Fellowship at the Writers’ Colony in Dairy Hollow
- Winner of the 2020 Fineline Competition from Mid-American Review
- Winner of the 2020 Gullkistan Residency for artists in Árnessýslu, Iceland
- Finalist for the 2017 National Poetry Series
- Semi-finalist for 2016 92Y Discovery Award from the 92Y Unterberg Poetry Center
Selected EDITORIAL WORK
- Editor for the North American Review 2018-currently
- Iowa Public Radio, Talk of Iowa, "The Nation's Oldest Literary Magazine Lives on in Iowa"
- Reviews for Open Space