Rachel Mennies is the author of the poetry collection The Glad Hand of God Points Backwards (Texas Tech University Press), winner of the 2013 Walt McDonald First-Book Prize in Poetry, and the chapbook No Silence in the Fields (Blue Hour Press). Her poetry has appeared in Black Warrior Review, Crazyhorse, Colorado Review, Poet Lore, and elsewhere, and has been reprinted at Poetry Daily. She teaches writing at Carnegie Mellon University and is a member of AGNI's editorial staff.