Rachel James is a poet and artist with a background in experimental ethnography. She is the author of An Eros Encyclopedia (Wendy's Subway, 2022) and the chaplet from V’s Order (Belladonna*, 2023). As an audio documentarian, she has worked with BBC Radio, KCRW’s The Organist, and others. Most recently, James produced Wake, Butterfly, a series of audio portraits presented by Poetry Magazine.
Her interdisciplinary work has been shown in North America and Europe, including at The Poetry Project in New York City, SOMA in Mexico City, The New Gallery in Calgary, and Totaldobže in Riga. She resides in New York City, Lenapehoking, where she teaches seminars on sound, poetry, and performance scores.
Rachel James
Disciplines:
Literature – nonfiction
Disciplines:
Literature – nonfiction
Based in Brooklyn, NY
Residencies: 2025
More:
rachelsimonejames.com
Portrait by: Joanna Eldredge Morrissey
Studios
Monday Music
Rachel James worked in the Monday Music studio.
Given to the residency by the Monday Music Club of Orange, NJ, Monday Music Studio is sited next to an enormous boulder deposited by glaciers thousands of years ago. A small dormer once pierced the east slope of the roof, but after damage suffered in the 1938 hurricane, the roof was…