Hicks, Rachel E.: - Rachel E. Hicks's poems, essays, and short fiction have been published in various journals. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize three times, and her short story "Drink It Dry" won the 2019 Briar Cliff Review Fiction Prize. She is the assistant editor of Mars Hill Audio and the former editor of Among Worlds, a publication for global nomads. Rachel was born in the foothills of the Himalayas and spent the bookends of her childhood in India, with moves to Pakistan, Jordan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the United States, and Hong Kong in between. As an adult she has lived in Phoenix, Arizona, and Chengdu, China. She currently lives with her husband in Baltimore, Maryland, and she has two adult children. Her debut poetry collection is Accumulated Lessons in Displacement.