Publications

Select publications are listed below. For a full C.V. contact Rachel at wordcalculus@gmail.com.

Creative Nonfiction/Hybrid

•  “Reflections on Trauma over an X-Axis,” New South, October 2017, and Columbia College Chicago online, May 2017
• “Was it Practice?” Anomaly (FKA Drunken Boat), July 2017
• “My Story, My Life” feature in Our Lives Magazine, September 2018

Poetry

• “Erasure” The Offbeat, Volume 17, December 2016
• “Trigger” RCAH Center for Poetry at Michigan State University, November 2016
• “To the Names Written on the Rocks” Words Dance, 2017
• “Seam,” Red Paint Hill, 2017
• “The Islands Between Us,” The Mud Season Review, April 2017
• “Sonnet with Empty Pockets,” Colorado Review, November 2017
• “Selected Autobiography: Children’s Memorial Hospital,” The Journal, August 2017
• “Seizure,” and “Prelude,” The Louisville Review, May 2018

Op-eds and Articles

• “We Need to Break through the Silence on Abuses of Institutionalized Children”, Rooted in Rights, July 17, 2018
• “Disabled People are Worth More Than the Hours they Can Work,” Rooted in Rights, October 29^th, 2018

Mixed Media and Visual Art

• “Carry Me,”  Wally Douma Student Art Gallery, Oct 2017- Jan 2017
• “Complex Trauma: A Memoir,” Awakenings Foundation, Our Bodies Remember Exhibit Nov. 9, 2018 – ?