Rachel Trousdale

Rachel Trousdale is a professor of English at Framingham State University. Her poetry collection, Five-Paragraph Essay on the Body-Mind Problem, won the inaugural Cardinal Poetry Prize and will be published by Wesleyan University Press in 2025. Her latest scholarly book is Humor, Empathy, and Community in Twentieth-Century American Poetry (Oxford, 2022). Her website is Racheltrousdale.com, and she is on social media on X and on Bluesky.