This event is virtual-only (via Zoom) and is open to Helen Zell Writers' Program MFA students and Zell Fellows, as well as U-M graduate and undergraduate students. It is not open to the general public. Please email Julie Cadman-Kim (kimjulie@umich.edu) for login instructions.

About her craft talk, “Poetry Career as Art Career,” Rachel says: "As poets, we’re often starved for career advice; what we pick up from prose-writing friends doesn’t always apply. Well, what if we think of ourselves more like painters?"

Rachel Mannheimer was born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska, and lives in Brooklyn, New York. From 2008 to 2016, she worked as an editor at Bloomsbury Publishing, where she acquired and edited both literary fiction and nonfiction. She left that job to pursue her MFA in poetry at NYU.

Since 2018, she has worked as an international book scout, advising foreign publishers on English-language literature for translation in their markets, and since 2019, she has also been on the editorial staff of the *Yale Review, editing across genres.

Her own poetry has appeared in the New England Review, the Colorado Review, Poetry Northwest, Astra Magazine, Poetry London, and elsewhere, and her first book, EARTH ROOM, was selected by Louise Glück as the inaugural winner of the Changes Book Prize. She recently served as a reader for the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize.