Rachel Rose is the author of four collections of poetry, including
Marry & Burn, which received a 2016 Pushcart Prize, and was a finalist for a Governor General’s Award. Her memoir,
The Dog Lover Unit: Lessons in Courage from the World’s K9 Cops, was shortlisted for the 2018 Arthur Ellis award for best non-fiction crime book
. A former fellow at The University of Iowa’s International Writing Program, she is the Poet Laureate Emerita of Vancouver. Recent fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in
The Bellevue Literary Review, The Antioch Review,
The New Quarterly and
The Alaska Quarterly Review.