Hila Ratzabi was selected by Adrienne Rich as a recipient of a National Writers Union Poetry Prize, has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and received an Amy Award. She was a finalist in the Narrative Fifth Annual Poetry Contest (2013). She is the author of the chapbook The Apparatus of Visible Things (Finishing Line Press). Her poetry is published or forthcoming in The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry, Narrative, Alaska Quarterly Review, Drunken Boat, The Normal School, H_NGM_N, Cortland Review, and others. She has received scholarships and fellowships to the Willapa Bay AiR residency, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Arctic Circle Residency. She is the editor-in-chief of Storyscape. She holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, and lives in Philadelphia where she founded the Red Sofa Salon & Poetry Workshop.

Website: www.hilaratzabi.com

Twitter Username: @hilaratzabi

Publications

• The Apparatus of Visible Things , Finishing Line Press (August 1, 2009)

Awards

• National Writers Union Prize(2006)

Employment

• Freelance Editor (May 1999 - )

Degrees

• Bachelor of Arts in English/Creative Writing from Barnard College (May 2003)
• Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College (May 2007)

Genres of Interest

Creative nonfiction, Poetry