Rachel Levitsky came out as a Lesbian in 1984 and as a poet in 1994. She is the author Under the Sun (Futurepoem, 2003), NEIGHBOR (UDP, 2009) the poetic novella, The Story of My Accident is Ours (Futurepoem, 2013) and numerous chapbooks, including Hopefully, The Island, with the artist Susan Bee, and the bi-lingual Against Travel/Anti-Voyage with Pascal Poyet in 2020. In 1999 she founded Belladonna Series as a reading series. In 2010 Belladonna Series became Belladonna* Collaborative and she became a member. For many years now she has had a focus and social practice on performing and leading poetic, all body inclusive walks, including “Collective Simultaneous Variously Ambulatory Walks” during the first two years of the ongoing Covid pandemic. She works as Professor of Writing at Pratt Institute.