Rachel Slotnick

Rachel Slotnick received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2010. She is a full-time professor at Malcolm X College and adjunct faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is a commissioned muralist for Chicago’s 35th, 39th, 46th and 47th wards. Rachel recently completed sculpture installations on Michigan Avenue as a donation to PAWS Chicago, one of which has been placed on permanent display at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her work has appeared in Mad Hat, Thrice Fiction, Driftwood Press, After Hours, Rain Taxi, Newfound, and The Brooklyn Rail among others. Rachel won Rhino Poetry’s Founder’s Prize and was nominated by Rhino Poetry for the Pushcart Prize in 2015. She was nominated by Make Literary Magazine for the Pushcart Prize in 2017. She is the author of “In Lieu of Flowers,” available through Tortoise Books.

To see the full scope of her work, please refer to her website:

www.rachelslotnick.com