Bio

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 Crazyhorse, Fence, Prairie Schooner, Denver Quarterly, Salt Hill, The Laurel Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Mid-American Review, DIAGRAM, Barrow Street, and Hunger Mountain. Her work has been nominated for the 2018 Best of the Net Anthology, a Pushcart Prize, and she's received a fellowship from Vermont Studio Center. She 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 2020 recipient of a residency at Gullkistan, Center for Creativity in Iceland and the winner of the 2020 Fineline Competition. 

Interviews

Contributor Interview: Little Patuxent Review 
Contributor Interview: Split Rock Review
Contributor Interview: Mid-American Review
Final Thursday Press Interview

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EDITORIAL WORK

In this hour of Talk of Iowa, host Charity Nebbe is joined by Editor of the North American Review, Jeremy Schraffenberger, and North American Review Poetry Editor, Rachel Morgan, to discuss the magazine’s history, its place in Iowa, and the future of the publication.
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“When Poems Use Science To Speak Miracle and Apology” review of Cynthia Marie Hoffman’s Paper Doll Fetus

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Essays on CRAFT & TEACHING

“Walk the Talk of Show, Don’t Tell” South85 Journal
“Reflection on the Slim Years” the North American Review

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