Rae Gouirand

• 100F (001), 100F (002), & 391 (Fall 2026)
• 100P, 100PA (Winter 2027)
• 46, 100F, & 391 (Spring 2027)

Rae Gouirand is the author of a book-length poem, The Velvet Book (Cornerstone Press, 2024), a 2025 Lambda Literary Award finalist; two collections of poetry, Glass is Glass Water is Water (Spork Press, 2018) and Open Winter (Bellday Books, 2011); the chapbooks Rough Sequence (Seven Kitchens Press, 2023), Little Hour (Swan Scythe Press, 2022), Jinx (Seven Kitchens Press, 2019), and Must Apple (Educe Press, 2018); and a short work of nonfiction, The History of Art (The Atlas Review, 2019). Her newest collection, Whatever Dimness or Brightness, is just out through the Portage Poetry Series this fall. 

Rae's work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Bennington Review, Boston Review, Conjunctions, Foglifter, The Iowa Review, jubilat, The Kenyon Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Rumpus, Spinning Jenny, Under a Warm Green Linden, ZYZZYVA, two volumes of the Best New Poets series, Please Excuse This Poem: 100 New Poems for the Next Generation, Queer Nature: A Poetry Anthology, and over 100 other journals and anthologies nationwide. An alumna of Bryn Mawr College and the MFA program at the University of Michigan, she has received numerous fellowships and awards for her poetry and nonfiction from institutions including the Vermont Studio Center, the Santa Fe Art Institute, Kalani WiR, Willapa Bay AiR, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, In Cahoots, Writing Between the Vines, VCCA, the Desert Rat WiR program, and the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Foundation. She leads several longrunning independent workshops in northern California and online, including her cross-genre workshop Scribe Lab, and has lectured in the Department of English since 2012.