Poet, essay­ist, trans­la­tor and Ful­bright Schol­ar, Rachel Neve-Midbar’s col­lec­tion Salaam of Birds was cho­sen by Dorothy Bar­resi for the Patri­cia Bib­by First Book Prize and was pub­lished by Tebot Bach in Jan­u­ary 2020. She is also the author of the chap­book, What the Light Reveals (Tebot Bach, 2014, win­ner of The Clock­work Prize). Rachel’s work has appeared in Black­bird, Prairie Schooner, Grist and Geor­gia Review as well as oth­er pub­li­ca­tions and antholo­gies. Her awards include the Crab Orchard Review Richard Peter­son Prize, The Pas­sager Prize, and nom­i­na­tions for The Push­cart Prize. Rachel is also the co-edi­tor of Stained: an anthol­o­gy of cre­ative writ­ing about men­stru­a­tion (Queren­cia Press, July 2023) and her schol­ar­ly work Thought and New Lan­guage in the Men­stru­al Poem is due out from Pal­grave MacMil­lan in 2026. Rachel earned her PhD from The Uni­ver­si­ty of South­ern Cal­i­for­nia, where her research con­cerned men­stru­a­tion in con­tem­po­rary poet­ry. She is cur­rent­ly a Ful­bright Post Doc in Israel trans­lat­ing the poems of Holo­caust poet Abba Kovn­er and she is also the Poet­ry Edi­tor at Judith Magazine.