RACHEL K. ZALL is a queer femme poet, performing artist, photographer, graphic designer and activist living in Somerville, MA with her wife and cats.

As a member of the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition she is Vice-Chair of the Steering Committee, Chair of the Policy and Outreach Committees, a community intern, and does much of the organization's graphic design, including designing the organization's popular "Trans Rights Now!" buttons, as well as a set of transgender suicide prevention brochures which have been distributed globally.

Rachel has been a featured performer at spoken word nights, benefits, and conferences across New England, including TranScriptions, Port Veritas, and the recent Stonewall Communities Sex & Gender In The City: From Lesbian Feminists In The 70's To LGBTQQIA's Today conference.

In Spring 2009, she published her first collection of poetry, The Oxygen Catastrophe: Poems 1999 - 2006. Her second, New Problems was released in early 2010, and she is currently working on a book of poems about overcoming transphobia, tentatively titled Naming, though that title may change if she's fickle. (Which she is.)

Her other previous publication credits include The Cafe Review, Arsenic Lobster, Rhino, Words And Images and Monkey's Fist, as well as two poems in Safe Harbor: Port Veritas Poetry Anthology.