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Rachel Robb

Rachel Robb is a writer and educator of Jamaican-Irish heritage. Her poetry has been featured in the Bridport Prize anthology and shortlisted for The Fiddlehead’s Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize, The Alpine Fellowship, and the Montreal International Poetry Prize. Robb’s work has also appeared in anthologies for the gritLit Festival and The Alice Munro Festival of the Short Story. She won the 2024 CBC Poetry Prize for her poem, “Palimpsest County.” Robb is currently working on her first collection of poetry. She lives in Toronto.  

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“Rachel Robb’s collection ‘Bugonia, Bugonia & Other Poems’ is ambitious and measured, attentive to what a poem can truly hold. They are poems the reader inhabits — ones to return to and get lost in — and they return to you in kind. Accomplishing this is a feat. It demonstrates a keen sensitivity to the pressure a poem’s conceit can bear, and to what line and language can quietly carry. Robb meets that high standard, and her poems stand out because they trust the everyday. Yet what lingers is something stranger: a slow, labyrinthine settling.”—2026 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers Poetry Jury (Jeff Latosik, Zehra Naqvi, Chuqiao Yang)