Rachel Levitsky (born December 2, 1963) is a feminist avant-garde poet,[1] novelist, essayist, translator,[2] editor, educator, and a founder of Belladonna* Collaborative.
[10] At The Constant Critic, Sueyuen Juliette Lee said that its "stakes feel infinitely high, the writing slowly spinning towards finding a way forward, a means for understanding and navigating our new situation, this post-Accident space.
"[11] Levitsky's work has appeared in Bombay Gin, The Brooklyn Rail, EOAGH, Future Perfect: An Anthology of the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, Puerto del Sol, Triple Canopy, e-consulta, Gay City News, Hyperallergic, BOMB Magazine, Jacket2, Fence, and others.
She has also appeared in several exhibitions and events throughout NYC and the U.S. Belladonna* was created in 1999 as a salon and reading series at Bluestocking's Women's Bookstore in New York City's Lower East Side.
The collective describes their mission as an attempt "to promote the work of women writers who are adventurous, experimental, politically involved, multi-form, multicultural, multi-gendered, impossible to define, delicious to talk about, unpredictable and dangerous with language".
It is a research and pedagogical laboratory that promotes a concept of cultural sustainability and radical recuperation toward possible futures that invent new fields of vitality, desire, hybridity, activism, and dwelling.