RAE GOUIRAND is the author of two full-length collections of poetry, Glass is Glass Water is Water (Spork Press, 2018), and Open Water (winner of the Bellday Prize, Bellday Books, 2011).  She has founded numerous long-running workshops in poetry and prose in northern California and online, and lectures in the Department of English at UC-Davis.

Rae Gouirand won the  3rd Annual Oro Fino Chapbook Competition.