Meet Our Featured Poet

Rachel Linton

Rachel Linton is a playwright, poet, and soon-to-be law student at the University of Chicago. She grew up in the San Gabriel Valley before attending the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, where she graduated from summa cum laude in 2019.

She is a two-time winner of both the Blank Theatre Young Playwrights Festival and the Donn B. Murphy One-Acts Festival at Georgetown University, among other awards. Her most recent play, "Fandom for Robots," was a finalist for the Neukom Institute Literary Arts Award for Playwriting. Her poetry has previously appeared in Rollick Magazine.

In addition to writing, she enjoys hiking, archery, science fiction, and befriending robots online. You can occasionally find her on Twitter @rleighl.