Rachelle Toarmino is a poet from Niagara Falls, New York. She is the author of the poetry collection That Ex (Big Lucks Books) and several chapbooks, most recently Comeback (Foundlings Press). Her poems and essays on poetry have appeared in American Poetry Review, Bennington Review, Electric Literature, Iterant, Literary Hub, Poets.org, The Slowdown, and elsewhere. She earned her MFA in poetry at UMass Amherst, where she received an Academy of American Poets Prize. She is also the founding editor in chief of Peach Mag and the founder and lead instructor of Beauty School, an independent poetry school. She lives in Buffalo.