Evening Reading with Rachel Richardson

Part of the Creative Writing Visiting Writers Series

Join SMC's Creative Writing Department in Hagerty Lounge for an Evening Reading with visiting writer Rachel Richardson, author of the poetry collection Smother, forthcoming from W. W. Norton in 2025, and two previous books of poetry, Hundred-Year Wave and Copperhead. This event is free, open to the public, and ADA Accessible. Light refreshments will be served.

Rachel Richardson is the author of the poetry collection Smother, forthcoming from W. W. Norton in 2025, and two previous books of poetry, Hundred-Year Wave and Copperhead, both from Carnegie Mellon University Press. She is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow and National Endowment for the Arts Fellow. Her poetry has appeared in The New York Times, American Poetry Review, Orion, Yale Review, on The Slowdown; her nonfiction has been published in Literary Hub, Kenyon Review, at the Poetry Foundation, and elsewhere. Born and raised in the Bay Area, she is a co-founder of the literary center Left Margin LIT and serves on the advisory board of the Bay Area Book Festival.