About Rachel Dacus
Rachel Abramson Dacus was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1949. She grew up in southern California's oceanside town of San Pedro where she developed a love of the shore and of the written word, often at the same time. She majored in English, French Literature and counterculture at U.C. Berkeley during the interesting 1960s.
Earth Lessons, her first poetry collection, was published by Bellowing Ark Press in 1998. The poetry-and-music CD, A God You Can Dance followed in 2003. Her second full-length collection, Femme au chapeau,appeared from David Robert books in 2005. Her chapbook, Another Circle of Delight, was released by Small Poetry Press in 2007.
Rachel Dacus's poems, stories and essays have appeared widely in print and online and have been included in these anthologies:Ravishing DisUnities: Real Ghazals in English (Wesleyan University Press; 2000), Blue Arc West (Tebot Bach, 2006), Letters to the World (Red Hen Press, 2008) and the forthcoming Beyond Forgetting: Poetry and Prose About Alzheimer's Disease, to appear from Kent State University Press. Her prose is featured in an anthology of travel essays: Italy, A Love Story (Seal Press, 2005).
She serves as a Contributing Editor at Umbrella and is on the staff of the Alsop Review's workshop Gazebo. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.