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Rachael Ikins
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Rachael Ikins is a 2016/18 Pushcart, 2013/18 CNY Book Award nominee, 2018 Independent Book Award winner, & 2019 Vinnie Ream & 2019/2021 Faulkner finalist. A 2021 Best of the Net nominee, 2023 Editor's Choice Award from Studio B. October 2023 2nd prize and an HM from Northwind Writing Competition sponsored by Raw Earth Ink, Alaska. A graduate of Syracuse University with a degree in Child and Family Studies Ikins worked as a sign language interpreter for deaf students ages K-12 and also as a veterinary technician before devoting herself full time to writing. Fellowships: Colgate Writers Conferences for poetry (3) and young adult literature. She founded and moderated the feature/open mic event bimonthly Monday Night Poetry at a sushi Blues 2008-2011. Honorarium from Finishing Line Press for a weeklong workshop in Lismore Castle, Lismore, Ireland 2014. While there she worked with Patricia Smith, Jane Smiley, Ethel Rohan and others. June 2014, she juried into Marge Piercy’s Poetry Intensive workshop, Cape Cod. Ikins is a Fingerlakes born author/illustrator of multiple books in multiple genres. Her work appears in journals such as the Muddy River Poetry Review, Owl Light, Literary Turning Points,The Mason Street Review, Broadkill Review, Fly on the Wall Press UK, Synkroniciti, the Red Wheelbarrow, S/tick, Dragon Poet Review, Indigo Blue online UK, Cider Press Review, Syracuse Poster Project, The Healing Muse, The Pen Woman Magazine, Avocet, Moonstone Press, anthologies from IndieBlue Press, The Brave (Clare Songbirds Publishing House), Spontaneity Review, Ireland, and many others. Her visual art and photography have won prizes and have hung in galleries from CNY to Washington DC and appeared on local television stations and on many journal covers. She is a former member of NLAPW and currently of Just Poets. She works as associate/contributing editor at Clare Songbirds Publishing House. Ikins also spends significant time mentoring emerging poets and helping them achieve published works. She has appeared on the New York Parrot Literary Review YouTube and in other interviews. Find her @rzikins.author.artist Instagram At Rachael Ikins Books and Poetry on FaceBook and Ask the Girl Arts
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