How to Bless the New Moon

TEDx Poet Rachel Kann is a resident writer for Hevria. She's shared her poetry on Morning Becomes Eclectic on NPR, as "The Weather" on the podcast phenomenon, Welcome to Night Vale and at venues such as Disney Concert Hall, Royce Hall, and The Broad Stage. Her writing (poetry and fiction) appears or is forthcoming in journals such as Tiferet, Eclipse, Permafrost, Coe Review, Sou'wester, GW Review, Quiddity, The Moon Magazine, and Lalitamba. She has received accolades from the James Kirkwood Fiction Awards, Writer's Digest Short-Short Story Awards, and LA Weekly Awards. She is the 2017 recipient of the Outstanding Instructor Award in Creative Writing through the Writers' Program at UCLA Extension, where she teaches poetry and fiction workshops. She is a poet, a dancer, a shamanic apprentice in the Shipibo lineage, and completing priestess ordination through Kohenet.