Chelsea Rathburn

Chelsea Rathburn (born Jacksonville, Florida) is an American poet.

Chelsea Rathburn was raised in Miami, Florida, and earned an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Arkansas. Her work has appeared in Poetry, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Criterion, Hudson Review, and Pleiades, and other journals. She works as a marketing writer and lives in Decatur, Georgia, with her husband, poet James May, and their daughter.

Awards

 * 2012 Autumn House Press Poetry Prize, selected by Stephen Dunn
 * 2009 National Endowment for the Arts poetry fellowship
 * 2005 Richard Wilbur Award, selected by Timothy Steele