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Rachelle Toarmino That Ex Big Lucks Book
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biography

 

Rachelle Toarmino is a poet from Niagara Falls, New York. She is the author of the poetry collection That Ex and the chapbooks ComebackFeel Royal, and Personal & Generic. Her poems and essays have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Bennington Review, Electric Literature, Literary Hub, Poetry Daily, The Slowdown, and elsewhere. 

Rachelle is the founding editor in chief of Peach Mag, an independent literary publishing project with an online journal, print anthologies, live and virtual events, and an editorial apprenticeship for teens. She is also an editorial advisor to Foundlings Press. She has presented both locally and nationally on topics such as building literary community, publishing protocols, and trends and developments affecting the independent publishing trade. In 2017, she served on the editorial advisory board of the anthology My Next Heart: New Buffalo Poetry.

Rachelle recently attended the Tin House Winter Workshop for nonfiction and is currently working on several new manuscripts. She lives between Buffalo and Western Massachusetts, where she is an MFA candidate in poetry at UMass Amherst.

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by D. Arthur at That Ex: The Drive-In

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by Stephen Gabris for Buffalo Spree

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by Sam Tilkins for Virago Buffalo

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by Shayna Kiblin

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by Nancy J. Parisi for Just Buffalo Literary Center

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