Raisa Tolchinsky's poetry explores the wisdom of the body and what it means to listen imaginatively. She is the author of Glass Jaw (Persea Books, 2024), winner of the 2023 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize. Her poems have appeared in Boston Review, Kenyon Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and other publications. She has held improvised typewriter sites everywhere from college campuses to hospital waiting rooms. Raisa holds an MFA from the University of Virginia, an MRPL from Harvard Divinity School, and a BA from Bowdoin College. In 2022–2023, she served as the George Bennett Writer-in-Residence at Phillips Exeter Academy. Currently, she is the Creative Writing Specialist at Harvard Divinity School.
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