Rachel Prizant Kotok

Rachel Prizant Kotok grew up in rural South Jersey. Both sides of her family have agrarian refugee roots. She is a fifth-generation descendant of a unique Jewish Ukrainian farming community, established in 1882 during the zenith of pogroms under the Russian Empire. She attended Smith College, earning her BA in World Religion. She has worked as an educator for more than two decades. Addicted to constrained writing, Rachel writes letter-sequenced palindromic poetry, microfiction, flash, and fiction.