RACHEL DILLON
Dogtown Woods, c.1930
POETRY
Poet Lore: "Punchline Wittgenstein," print, 2025.
Verse Daily: "If You Lived Here, You'd be Home By Now," online (reprint), 2024.
Asheville Poetry Review: "Biomimicry" and "If You Lived Here, You'd be Home By Now," print, 2024.
Volume Poetry: "Rabbi Yits’hak Luria Spoke the Language of Birds, Trees, and Angels," online, 2024.
The Illegalist: "Witch Song for the Naming of Dogtown" and "GET A JOB," print, 2024.
Solstice Literary Magazine: "Every Time I Sharpen the Knives," online, 2023
Wyrd & Wyse: "Witch Song for the Trees," print, 2023.
The Other Cape: "COURAGE" and "IF WORK STOPS VALUES DECAY," online, 2022.
HOOT Review: "You & Fireworks in Reykjavik," online, 2022.
Binghamton Poetry Project Anthology: "Above the Parking Lot," online, 2021.
Verse Daily: "If You Lived Here, You'd be Home By Now," online (reprint), 2024.
Asheville Poetry Review: "Biomimicry" and "If You Lived Here, You'd be Home By Now," print, 2024.
Volume Poetry: "Rabbi Yits’hak Luria Spoke the Language of Birds, Trees, and Angels," online, 2024.
The Illegalist: "Witch Song for the Naming of Dogtown" and "GET A JOB," print, 2024.
Solstice Literary Magazine: "Every Time I Sharpen the Knives," online, 2023
Wyrd & Wyse: "Witch Song for the Trees," print, 2023.
The Other Cape: "COURAGE" and "IF WORK STOPS VALUES DECAY," online, 2022.
HOOT Review: "You & Fireworks in Reykjavik," online, 2022.
Binghamton Poetry Project Anthology: "Above the Parking Lot," online, 2021.
APIARY Magazine: "On the Oregon Coast," print, 2020.
Laurel Moon: "Loves His Bath," print, 2015.
Laurel Moon: "Loves His Bath," print, 2015.
PROSE
"Benevolent Ghosts," DRIVEN TO WRITE: 45 Writers on the Motives and Mysteries of their Craft co-edited by Ellen Pinsky and Michael Slevin (Routledge, June 2025)
The Adroit Journal: "A Conversation with Robert Pinsky," online, 2024.
Broadsided Press: "Mythic Witness in Gabrielle Calvocoressi's Rocket Fantastic, online, 2023.
Publishers Weekly: Various titles for BookLife Reviews, online, 2020-2022.
The Adroit Journal: "A Conversation with Robert Pinsky," online, 2024.
Broadsided Press: "Mythic Witness in Gabrielle Calvocoressi's Rocket Fantastic, online, 2023.
Publishers Weekly: Various titles for BookLife Reviews, online, 2020-2022.
HONORS & AWARDS
Best of the Net nominee, "Every Time I Sharpen the Knives," 2024BINC Foundation Susan Kamil Scholarship for Emerging Writers, 2024
Bread Loaf Environmental Writers' Conference, 2024
Kenyon Review Summer Writers Workshop, 2024
Manchester Cathedral Poetry Contest highly commended: "A Blessing for the Wine," 2024
Stephen Dunn Poetry Prize finalist: "Every Time I Sharpen the Knives," 2023
Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship, 2023
Academy of American Poets University Prize honorable mention: "A Blessing for the Wine," selected by Isabel Galleymore, 2023
Yakas Prize for Achievement in Creative Writing, Brandeis University, 2017
David A. Litwak Endowed Scholarship, Brandeis University, 2015 and 2016
World of Work Fellowship, Brandeis University, 2015
Andrew Grossbardt Memorial Prize in Poetry, Brandeis University, 2015
Prague Summer Program for Writers Fellowship, 2014