Rachel Jamison Webster
Rachel Jamison Webster is author of four books, including Mary is a River (Kelsay Books, 2018), a finalist for the National Poetry Series, and September (Triquarterly, 2013). She earned her MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College and received a Young Poets Prize from the Academy of American Poets. Her poems have been published in Poetry, the Paris Review, the Southern Review, the Madison Review, and other journals.
Webster edits the online anthology of international poetry, UniVerse. For several years, she designed and taught writing workshops for city kids, and with them, she edited two anthologies of writing by young Chicagoans, Alchemy (2001) and Paper Atrium (2004). She now teaches creative writing at Northwestern University.