Rachel Neve-Midbar

 

 

 

 

 

Poet, essayist, translator, and Fulbright Scholar, Rachel Neve-Midbar’s collection Salaam of Birds (Tebot Bach 2020) was chosen by Dorothy Barresi for the Patricia Bibby First Book Prize. She is also the author of the chapbook, What the Light Reveals (Tebot Bach, 2014, winner of The Clockwork Prize) and Thought and New Language in the Menstrual Poem (Palgrave MacMillan, upcoming). Her poems and essays have been published widely in journals and anthologies. Rachel received her Phd at The University of Southern California and recently completed her tenure as a Fulbright Scholar at The Hebrew University where she was translating the poetry of Abba Kovner. She is the co-editor of Stained: an anthology of writing about menstruation (Querencia Press, July 2023) and the Editor in Chief of Calul Journal. Rachel has taught writing workshops in person and online to an extended global community since 2013 and many of her students have gone on to successful writing careers. Now Rachel runs Calul Workshops, a program specially designed to help writers on all levels to get their stories on the page.