Rachel Dillon

Managing editor of Ploughshares. Winner of the Academy of American Poets Treehouse Climate Action Prize

Rachel Dillon is a poet, teacher, and editor from Massachusetts. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, the Asheville Poetry Review, the Bellevue Literary Review, Pleiades, Poet Lore, The Slowdown, and elsewhere. The winner of the Academy of American Poets Treehouse Climate Action Prize and the BINC Foundation’s Susan Kamil Scholarship, she has also received support from the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference, the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, and the Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship. A former high school English teacher in NYC public schools, she is the managing editor of Ploughshares and lives in Boston.