Rachel Bennett has a BA in English from Grinnell College, where she won two Whitcomb Poetry Prizes judged by Gerald Stern and James Galvin, and she is an alumna of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop Irish Writing Program in Dublin. Her poetry has appeared in Avocet, Big City Lit, Blood Lotus, Buffalo Carp, Rhapsoidia and The Portland Review. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. [bio updated 2011]