Rachel Eliza Griffiths

Rachel Eliza Griffiths is an artist, poet, and novelist. Her poetry collection, Seeing the Body won the 2021 Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award in poetry, the 2021 Paterson Poetry Prize, and was nominated for the 2020 NAACP Image Award. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Cave Canem Foundation, Kimbilio, and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The Georgia Review. She lives in New York City.

Fiction The Cutting Room

Hauntings

By Rachel Eliza Griffiths July 5, 2023

How impossible, how suspicious, it feels to join myself, my girlhood, to the ways of white people who would prefer me and my family dead.

Back Draft Interview Lit World

Back Draft: Rachel Eliza Griffiths

By Ben Purkert and Rachel Eliza Griffiths August 3, 2020

The poet on radical revision, our reflections, and photographing poets.