Rachel Mindell is a writer and teacher based in Tucson, Arizona. She is the author of two poetry chapbooks: Like a Teardrop and a Bullet (Dancing Girl Press) and rib and instep: honey (above/ground). Individual poems have appeared (or will) in Denver Quarterly, DIAGRAM, Foglifter, Tammy, Bombay Gin, BOAAT, Forklift, Ohio, The Journal, and elsewhere. She works for the University of Arizona Poetry Center and Submittable.