Rachel Eliza Griffiths

Rachel Eliza Griffiths is an artist, poet, and novelist. Her most recent collection, Seeing the Body (W.W. Norton 2020), was selected as the winner of the 2021 Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award in Poetry, the winner of the 2021 Paterson Poetry Prize, and a finalist for the 2021 NAACP Image Award. Griffiths' visual and literary work has appeared widely, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, the Paris Review, Best American Poetry (2021, 2022),

The Georgia Review, Guernica, Tin House, Los Angeles Review of Books, and many others. Her collections of poetry include Miracle Arrythmia (Willow Books), The Requited Distance (Sheep Meadow Press), Mule & Pear (New Issues Poetry & Prose), and Lighting the Shadow (Four Way Books). Her debut novel, Promise, is forthcoming from Random House.