Rachel Barenblat

Rachel Barenblat holds an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. She is author of 70 faces (Phoenicia Publishing, 2011), Waiting to Unfold (Phoenicia 2013), and Open My Lips (Ben Yehuda Press, 2014), as well as four previous chapbooks: the skies here (Pecan Grove Press 1995), What Stays (Bennington Writing Seminars Alumni Chapbook Series 2002), chaplainbook (Laupe House, 2006), and Through, a self-published collection of miscarriage poems (2009.) Since 2003 she has blogged as the Velveteen...See more

Rachel Barenblat holds an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. She is author of 70 faces (Phoenicia Publishing, 2011), Waiting to Unfold (Phoenicia 2013), and Open My Lips (Ben Yehuda Press, 2014), as well as four previous chapbooks: the skies here (Pecan Grove Press 1995), What Stays (Bennington Writing Seminars Alumni Chapbook Series 2002), chaplainbook (Laupe House, 2006), and Through, a self-published collection of miscarriage poems (2009.) Since 2003 she has blogged as the Velveteen Rabbi. Ordained a rabbi by ALEPH: the Alliance for Jewish Renewal, she serves a small congregation in western Massachusetts where she lives with her husband and son. See less