Rachel Zucker

After high school, Zucker attended Yale University where she majored in Psychology, focusing on Child Development, though she took as many literature, writing and photography classes as she was allowed.

[1] Zucker is creator and host of the podcast Commonplace: Conversations with Poets (and Other People).

[2] She is currently working on an immersive audio project called SoundMachine, accompanying her 2019 collection of the same name.

[3] Her poem, "In Your Version of Heaven I Am Younger" was featured in the anthology, The Best American Poetry 2001 (edited by Robert Hass).

Since that time she has aided many women during labor, birth and postpartum and through her doula work and her writing, advocates for universal access to maternity care.