Rachael Matthews
is a poet and psychoanalytic psychotherapist living in Sussex, UK with her wife and their baby daughter. She is recently back from more than a decade in NYC where she trained and worked at a non-profit clinic (specializing in trauma and creativity – the focus of her doctoral research). Her debut pamphlet do not be lulled by the dainty starlike blossom was published by The Emma Press in 2021. It touches on queer family-making and working class childhood.