ABOUT
Rachel Dillon is a writer, editor, and teacher from Arlington, Massachusetts. She lives in Bosotn, where she is the managing editor of Ploughshares.
She was previously the Marketing Director of The Adroit Journal, the Instagram editor and an editorial assistant at AGNI, and a poetry reader for the Los Angeles Review.
She holds an MFA in poetry from Boston University, as well as a Master of Arts in Teaching and Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing from Brandeis University. While completing her MFA, she was a teaching fellow in the Boston University Creative Writing department and an intern for the Favorite Poem Project.
Rachel taught high school English Language Arts in NYC public schools and has worked as an adjunct professor for the Boston University Creative Writing department and Lehman College's Graduate School of Education. She has also taught creative writing workshops at Writopia Lab and the South Sudanese Enrichment for Families Bridges Program.