Rachel Webster

Professor of Creative Writing, Northwestern University

Rachel Jamison Webster is a Professor of Creative Writing in the English Department at Northwestern University and the author of four books of poetry in addition to “Benjamin Banneker and Us.” Rachel has taught at Northwestern for the last 17 years and has developed writing workshops with the National Urban League, Ancestral Medicine, Chicago Public Schools, and Gallery 37, receiving a Hewlett Fellowship for her implementation of diversity education. She has been a Kaplan Fellow in the Humanities, an Op Ed Public Voices Fellow, and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Rachel’s essays, poems, and stories are frequently published in anthologies and outlets including Poetry, The Southern Review, and The Yale Review.