Rachel Linn

Rachel Linn’s first book, Household Tales (Meekling Press, 2023), is a collection of linked stories paired with pop-up illustrations. Her other work includes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and translation. Her work has appeared in Subtropics, The New Territory, MinorLiterature[s], Phoebe, Storm Cellar, the St. Louis Metro Arts in Transit program, and other publications. 

Linn also creates visual art that merges drawing, printmaking, watercolor, and needlework techniques, and often takes the form of handmade books. She was a finalist for the Saint Louis Poetry Center James H. Nash Contest in 2022, and she completed a poetry translation project as an artist-in-residence at the Printery Book Arts Lab at Central Print in Saint Louis, Missouri. 

Linn earned an MFA in creative writing from the University of Washington, where she received a Eugene Van Buren Prize. She is currently a PhD candidate at Saint Louis University, working on a dissertation project that explores medieval ecopoetics.