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Rachel James

A screenshot of Rachel, a white woman, video chatting with the night sky in the background. She points the camera to herself and appears in a small rectangle on the upper right of the image. She has brown hair to her shoulders and wears a white T shirt with a pink collar underneath. She is in mid-speech as a light grey cloud drifts by. The cloud loosely resembles a human face.

Rachel James (b. Toronto, Canada) is a poet and artist with a background in experimental ethnography. She is the author of An Eros Encyclopedia (Wendy's Subway, 2022), and the chaplet from V’s Order (Belladonna*, 2023). Her work has been presented in the United States, Canada, and Europe, including at Essex Flowers and The Poetry Project in New York City, Kelly Writers House in Philadelphia, The New Gallery in Calgary, and Totaldobže in Riga. As an audio documentarian, she has worked with BBC Radio, KCRW’s The Organist, WNYC, and others. She lives in New York City, Lenapehoking.