Rachel Zucker Biography

Rachel Zucker is an American poet born in New York City in 1971. She is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently, Museum of Accidents (Wave Books 2009). She also co-edited the book Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections with fellow poet, Arielle Greenberg. Her honors include having a poem included in the 2009 Best American Poetry edition, and winning the Salt Hill Poetry Award (1999, judged by C.D. Wright) and the Barrow Street Poetry Prize (2000). In 2002 she won the Center for Book Arts Award (judged by Lynn Emanuel) for her long poem, "Annunciation". She is a graduate of Yale University, where she received her B.A. in Psychology. Zucker later went on to the Iowa Writers' Workshop where she received her M.F.A. in poetry. Currently, she lives in New York City with her husband and three sons.