*(originally published in Pigeonholes, 2018)

Rachel Neve-Midbar is the author of two prizewinning poetry collections. She edited the anthology Stained (Querencia Press 2023). Her scholarly work is Thought and New Language in the Menstrual Poem (Palgrave MacMillan 2026.) Rachel is a Fulbright Post Doc translating Holocaust poet Abba Kovner and the Poetry Editor at Judith Magazine. More at rachelnevemidbar.com