Raisa Tolchinsky is the author of the poetry collection Glass Jaw (Persea Books, 2024), winner of the 2023 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize. She has published poems in Boston Review, Kenyon Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. Raisa earned her MFA from the University of Virginia and her B.A. from Bowdoin College. She was the 2022–2023 George Bennett Writer-in-Residence at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire and is a graduate of Harvard Divinity School.  Previously, Raisa lived in Chicago, Bologna (Italy), and New York City, where she trained as a boxer.

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