Riley Ratcliff (they/she)
Providence, Rhode Island
Education
Brown University
Master of Fine Arts, Literary Arts (Poetry) | 2024
Advisor: Cole Swensen, PhD
University of Texas at Austin
Bachelor of Arts, English and Philosophy | 2017
Advisors: Chad Bennett, PhD; Kathleen Higgins, PhD
Teaching
Teaching Artist. Vartan Gregorian Elementary School | Spring 2024
LITR 0210B – Poetry Writing 2: Tangent, Line, and Point. Brown University | Spring 2024
LITR 0110B – Poetry 1: Lifestyle Poetics. Brown University | Fall 2023
Publishing Experience
Co-Editor
Triangle Poetry | 2021–22
Managing Editor
Anesthesia & Analgesia | 2020–22
A&A Practice | 2020–22
Editorial Assistant
World Allergy Organization Journal | 2020–22
American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation | 2018–21
Anesthesia & Analgesia | 2018–20
A&A Practice | 2018–20
BioTechniques | 2019–20
Hepatic Oncology | 2019–20
Central Nervous System Oncology | 2019–20
Melanoma Management | 2019–20
Therapeutic Delivery | 2019–20
Future Medicinal Chemistry | 2018–19
Proofreader
The Collected Works of J.A. Atanda, ed. Toyin Falola | 2017–18
Publications (listed in detail here)
Chapbook Publications
Forthcoming
nest (n’est pas une métaphore | Spiral Editions
2025
Circulation- | auric press
Journal Publications
2025
exquisites | volume 5
Pamphlettes
2024
Paperbag | Issue 15
Bat City Review | Issue 20
Creative Writing Department | Issue 3
Nat. Brut | Issue 17
2023
the tiny | Issue 12
Denver Quarterly | Issue 57.3
b l u s h
APARTMENT Poetry | Issue 16
Afternoon Visitor | issue 07
DIAGRAM | 22.6
2022
Puerto del Sol | Issue 57.2
Annulet: A Journal of Poetics | Issue (4)
Poetry Northwest | Vol. 17.1
the concern. reading series
Triangle Poetry
FENCE | Issue 39
2021
Two Peach | Issue 7
Raleigh Review | Vol. 11.2
TYPO | Issue 33
Wax 9
2020
Sporklet | Issue 14
2018
Hothouse | Issue 10
2017
Hothouse | Issue 9
Invited Readings (listed in detail here)
Bradley Street Bicycle Co-op, New Haven CT | August 22, 2025
Aberdeen Community Garden, Brooklyn NY | June 5, 2025
Arcana, Durham NC | June 1, 2025
Unnameable Books, Brooklyn NY | May 24, 2025
AS220, Providence RI | October 20, 2024
First Light Books, Austin TX | October 5, 2024
Riffraff, Providence RI | September 20, 2024
Cierah, New York NY | March 14, 2024
Black Lace, Providence RI | January 18, 2024
Unnameable Books, Brooklyn NY | August 28, 2023
Remnant Brewing, Somerville MA | June 27, 2023
Accent Sisters, Jersey City NJ | June 7, 2023
Typo Fest, Fayetteville AR | April 22, 2023
Perfect Lovers, Durham NC | January 12, 2023
Attic 506, Chapel Hill NC | June 10, 2022
Dix Park Conservancy, Raleigh NC | March 12, 2022
Nightlight, Chapel Hill NC | December 9, 2021
So & So Books, Raleigh NC | October 9, 2021
The Octopod, Durham NC | July 17, 2021
Awards and Recognition
Edgar Lewis Marston Fellow, Brown University | 2023–24
Winner, Kim Ann Arstark Memorial Award for “Poems from nest (n’est and lymph-,” Brown University | 2023
Winner, Puerto del Sol Poetry Prize for “I have never seen a warm poetic loaf of bread,” selected by Anthony Cody | 2022
Commission, Wings of the City, Dix Park Conservancy | 2022
Semi-finalist, Bat City Review Editor’s Prize for “Or was it about nothing at all” | 2021
Finalist, James F. Parker Prize in Poetry for “My Phenomenology,” UT-Austin | 2015
Literary Organizing
Co-curator, Poetry and Music at the Octopod | August 2021–22