Rachel Moritz is the author of Borrowed Wave, a finalist for the National Poetry Series as well as the 2015 Minnesota Book Award in Poetry. Her second poetry collection, Sweet Velocity, won the 2016 Besmilr Brigham Women Writer’s Award from Lost Roads Press. Moritz is also the co-editor of a collection of personal essays, My Caesarean: Twenty Mothers on the C-Section Experience and After. Her poems have appeared in American Letters and Commentary, Iowa Review, Poetry City, and elsewhere. Among her awards are fellowships from the Jerome Foundation and the Minnesota State Arts Board. Moritz received an MFA in Poetry from the University of Minnesota. She works as a teaching artist and a content developer for museum projects.