Rachel McKibbens

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Rachel McKibbens

–Ex-punk rock chola and mother of five-McKibbens founded The Pink Door Women’s Writing Retreat, an annual writing retreat in the US open exclusively to women of color. – She has an dynamic and large social media presence and a killer website: rachelmckibbens.com/-McKibbens is a member of Latinas Unidas and co-curates the critically-acclaimed monthly reading series Poetry and Pie Night in upstate New York.-According to her website, she is currently working on a memoir about growing up as a child misogynist.-For four years, McKibbens taught poetry through the Healing Arts Program at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan. She continues to teach poetry and creative writing and give lectures across the country as an advocate for mental health awareness, gender-equality and victims of violence and domestic abuse.