Me? Oui.
Rachel Gellman (me!) is a Bay Area-native poet, a teacher, and a life-long student. She is earning her MFA in Poetry at San Diego State University. When not writing poems or thinking about writing poems, she enlightens freshman undergraduates about the real world applications of Rhetoric and Writing, like how to analyze the Colbert Report. She received her B.S. in Journalism at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo where she once thought she would be a sports writer; that got boring. Along with being extremely opinionated about many subjects, she loves to cook, kickbox, play softball, talk to her modest garden of plants and the bugs and creatures that try to eat it, take pictures of food, hang out with her “Little Sister” from the Big Brothers Big Sisters program, read Shel Silverstein poems by candlelight during blackouts, make fun of Los Angeles-based sports teams and their fans when the teams are losing, walk to her neighborhood bar where she is a local, watch her pet spider (Petey or Spidey, depending on the day) build beautifully intricate webs each night, and go on adventures. She hopes to share many of those adventures (and opinions) with you! Find her work in Serving House Journal, Defenestration, San Diego Poetry Annual 2010 and 2011, Apercus Quarterly, and forthcoming in Poetry International.
