Rachel Eliza Griffiths

Rachel Eliza Griffiths is a multimedia artist, poet, and novelist. She received her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College and has been awarded fellowships from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Kimbilio, Cave Canem Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, Millay Colony, and Yaddo. Her literary and visual work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New York Times, Virginia Quarterly Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Guernica, The Best American Poetry 2020 and 2021, The New York Review of Books, BOMB, and many others. Her most recent work, her memoir The Flower Bearers, was published in January 2026. She lives in New York City. Photo Credit: Rachel Eliza Griffiths