Rachelle Toarmino is a poet from Niagara Falls, NY. She is the author of the poetry collections Hell Yeah and That Ex, as well as several chapbooks, most recently My Science, winner of the 2024 Sixth Finch Chapbook Contest. Her work has appeared in Poets.org, Literary Hub, The American Poetry Review, Bennington Review, The Slowdown, and Omnidawn, which awarded her its 2024 Single Poem Broadside Prize. She earned her MFA in poetry at UMass Amherst, where she received an Academy of American Poets Prize. In 2024, she was awarded a Support for Artists grant from NYSCA to begin her third book, Audiobiography, a work of poetry set in Niagara Falls.

 

Rachelle is also the founding editor in chief of the literary publishing project Peach Mag and the creator and lead instructor of Beauty School, an independent poetry school. She lives in Buffalo, where she teaches at Niagara University.

 

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