Rachel Kaufman

Rachel Kaufman is a poet, teacher, and PhD candidate in Latin American and Jewish history at UCLA. She writes archival poetry (including her first poetry book, Many to Remember, Dos Madres Press, 2021) and crafts historical narratives through poetic forms. Her new poetry manuscript emerges from the language and myth of the Talmud and reaches towards the possibilities and impossibilities of desire. Her writing has appeared on poets.org and in the Harvard Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Rethinking History, and Colonial Latin American Review. She was a 2023 Helene Wurlitzer poet-in-residence and a Fulbright-Hays Scholar. See rachel-kaufman.com for more.

Rachel Kaufman's work appears in Issue 45.2 Winter/Spring 2025.