Rachel Loughlin graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University, where she received the Undergraduate Poetry Award. She is a graphic designer, eternally optimistic gardener, runner, muralist, and writer living in Richmond, Virginia. Rachel explores the intersections of nature, sensuality, and deconstructed spirituality through her poetry.
Her work appears in:
Virginia Bard. October 2026 "Keys"
Paddler Press: Volume 6, September 2022 “Current”
Flora Fiction Literary Magazine: Courage, Fall 2022 "Safe" and "Brave”
Musing Publications: The Nuances of New-Age Feminism, October 2022, “Ten”
Kind of a Hurricane Press: When it Rains it Pours Anthology, October 2022, “Faithful”, “My City” and “School Garden in Quarantine”
Pure Slush Books / Bequem Publishing, Snatches of an Aria Music Folio 1 2022 “Donde lieta usci”
Tiny Seed Literary Journal "Plant Your Words Anthology" December 2022, "Sunflowers"
Green Ink Poetry, Thirteenth collection, “Luminescence” October 2022,” The Lake"
Moss Piglet, “Winter of My Discontent" December 2022 Issue, “Capistrano"
Parcham Magazine, October Issue 2022 "Graffiti"
Plum Tree Tavern, December 2022 Featured Poem, “Call Me Aster"
Kosmos Quarterly. Winter 2022 Issue, “Graffiti on The Lee Monument” and “Gray”
Fresh Words: International Literary Magazine CONTEMPORARY POEMS ANTHOLOGY-2022, “Dissociation"
The MockingOwl Roost, “Born" and "Known" MockingOwl Roost's blog as a Poetry Reading. "Told" for the MockingOwl Poetry Special, publishing May 21, 2023.
Writer's Workout, Tales from the Deep. Anthology Winter 2023,” Remember With the Land"
The Emblazoned Soul - A Literary Review, December 2022, "This Too is Work"
Fathom "Reverence" January 2023, “What My Body Was Told"
Michigan State University Libraries,” Peninsula" Spring 2023
Writer's Workout April 2023: Tales from the Deep Anthology, “Remember With the Land"
ARC30. (May 2023), Hat, Veritas, and On Being an Ally
OpenDoor Magazine. Summer 2023 "Glow"
