Rachel Marie Patterson is the co-founder and editor of Radar Poetry (www.radarpoetry.com) and the author of If I Am Burning (MSR 2011). She holds an M.F.A. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize, her work has also been nominated for Best of the Net, Best New Poets, and the Pushcart Prize. Most recently, she was a finalist for the 2020 Rita Dove Award from the Center for Women Writers. She lives in Ewing, NJ, with her husband and two daughters.