Rachel Neve-Midbar is an English speaking, Israeli poet, translator and essayist. Her work has appeared in Blackbird, Prairie Schooner and Georgia Review as well as other publications and anthologies. She was recently a finalist for the COR Richard Peterson Prize, winner of the Passenger Poetry Prize and nominated for The Pushcart Prize. Rachel earned her MFA at Pacific University in Oregon and is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.