Rachel Edelman is a Jewish poet raised in Memphis, TN and the author of the debut collection Dear Memphis (River River Books, 2024). Their poems have been published in Narrative, Poetry Northwest, Muzzle, and The Seventh Wave, among many other journals, and she has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the University of Washington, the Academy of American Poets, Mineral School, and Crosstown Arts. She teaches high school Language Arts in the Seattle Public Schools, where embodiment and care root their personal, poetic, and pedagogical practice.