Rachel J. Bennett is a poet living in New York City. Her debut full-length collection is Mothers & Other Fairytales, from Word Works Books. Other titles include On Rand McNally's World and Game, chapbooks from dancing girl press. Over the years, her poems have been judged favorably by Gerald Stern, James Galvin, Dawn Lundy Martin, and Bob Hicok, among others.

Rachel's poems have appeared in Poetry Daily, Prelude, Rattle, Smartish Pace, Salt Hill, Interim, Sixth Finch, Ninth Letter, Sycamore Review, and Vinyl, among other journals. She holds a B.A. in English with Phi Beta Kappa distinction from Grinnell College and has studied at Trinity College Dublin through the University of Iowa’s Irish Writing Program and in Ecuador. She has given readings at 92nd Y, the Irish Writing Program through the University of Iowa, KGB Bar, Cornelia Street Café, the Brooklyn Art Book Fair, and elsewhere.

Rachel grew up on the Illinois-Iowa border. She loves forests and inclement weather.