Rachel Han is a poet and musician based in Brooklyn. She received a B.A. in political science from the University of Florida and an M.F.A. in poetry from Rutgers-Newark University where she currently teaches English and poetry. Her work has appeared in Narrative, Pleiades, Interim, Conduit, and the LA Korea Times.
Han is a finalist for BOMB's 2022 Poetry Contest, and her first manuscript of poems was chosen as a semifinalist for the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in both 2022 and 2023. She is a 2022 Hawthornden Castle Fellow and 2023 New York Foundation of the Arts Grant Recipient.
At MacDowell, Han wrote poems to be included in her first manuscript, I am Returning for the Body, and began her second manuscript. She also composed music with her voice, violin, keys, and guitar.
