Rachel Berghash

Creative Nonfiction Writer, Poet

New York, NY
New York US

Author's Bio

Rachel Berghash is a prolific poet and Pushcart Prize nominee. Her poetry and translations appear in numerous literary magazines. She holds a master’s degree in social work from Yeshiva University and is a longtime teacher of Interior Life seminars that use key philosophical, psychological, and religious texts. Her essays in this area, with co-author Katherine Jillson, have been published in <i>Tikkun</i>, the <i>Journal of Religion and Health</i>, and elsewhere. In the 1980s, Berghash produced a series for radio that featured interviews with prominent poets. Transcripts of these have appeared in the <i>Partisan Review</i> and the <i>American Poetry Review</i>, and in essay collections from the <i>University of Michigan Press</i>.

Publications & Prizes

Creative Nonfiction

Book:
Half the House, My Life In and Out of Jerusalem (Sunstone Press, 2011)
Journals: ,
Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal
,
Crab Orchard Review
,
Miranda Literary Magazine
,

Poetry

Journals: ,
Blue Unicorn
,
Chicago Review
,
Christianity & Literature
,
Images
,
Israel Horizons
,
Jewish Frontier
,
Poetpourri
,
Psychoanalytic Perspectives
,
Pulp
,
Ruah
,
The Comstock Review
,
West Wind Review

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Israeli American
Fluent in: 
English, Hebrew
Born in: 
Jerusalem
Raised in: 
Jerusalem
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Last update: Nov 10, 2011