RACHEL DILLON
Dogtown Woods, c.1930
SELECTED POETRY
Pleiades: "SPIRITUAL POWER" and "BE ON TIME," print, forthcoming.
Bellevue Literary Review: "City Creatures," print, forthcoming.
Telephone Issue 2: "Poem," print, forthcoming.
The Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day: "A dead whale can feed an entire ecosystem," online, 2025.
Poet Lore: "Punchline Wittgenstein," print, 2025. *Best New Poets nominee
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. *Best of the Net nominee
Bellevue Literary Review: "City Creatures," print, forthcoming.
Telephone Issue 2: "Poem," print, forthcoming.
The Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day: "A dead whale can feed an entire ecosystem," online, 2025.
Poet Lore: "Punchline Wittgenstein," print, 2025. *Best New Poets nominee
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. *Best of the Net nominee
PROSE
Poets & Writers: "Agents & Editors Recommend," online, 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.
ANTHOLOGIES
DRIVEN TO WRITE: 45 Writers on the Motives and Mysteries of their Craft, co-edited by Ellen Pinsky and Michael Slevin (Routledge, July 2025): "Benevolent Ghosts," essay.
The Nature of Our Times: Poems on America’s Lands, Waters, Wildlife, and Other Natural Wonders, co-edited by Luisa A. Igloria, Aileen Cassinetto, and David Hassler (Paloma Press, October 2025): "A dead whale can feed an entire ecosystem," poem.
BINC 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
The Academy of American Poets University Prize, honorable mention: "A Blessing for the Wine," 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
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.
ANTHOLOGIES
DRIVEN TO WRITE: 45 Writers on the Motives and Mysteries of their Craft, co-edited by Ellen Pinsky and Michael Slevin (Routledge, July 2025): "Benevolent Ghosts," essay.
The Nature of Our Times: Poems on America’s Lands, Waters, Wildlife, and Other Natural Wonders, co-edited by Luisa A. Igloria, Aileen Cassinetto, and David Hassler (Paloma Press, October 2025): "A dead whale can feed an entire ecosystem," poem.
HONORS & AWARDS
The Academy of American Poets' Treehouse Climate Action Prize, first place: "A dead whale can feed an entire ecosystem," 2025BINC 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
The Academy of American Poets University Prize, honorable mention: "A Blessing for the Wine," 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