About Zara

Zara Raab’s poems have appeared in River Styx, The Dark Horse, Crab Orchard Review, The Evansville Review, and Arts & Letters. Her books are The Book of Gretel (Finishing Line Press, 2010), Fracas & Asylum, and Swimming the Eel (David Robert Books, 2010 and 20131). Stephen Kessler, editor of the Redwood Coast Review, described Swimming the Eel as “a moving and impressive work of art. […With] a combination of formal coherence and musical fluency, […] a beautifully sustained sequence of poems.”

Raab’s essays and reviews are published in nationally known journals, including Poet Lore and the Colorado Review. Moving through her website, you’ll find samples and links to some of her essays and reviews, as well as her interviews with writers like Philip Fradkin and Cathy Luchetti.