Rachel Dixon

About
always: writer, poet, gym rat, askew, up too late and too early
usually: solo, cat-like, dog person, health goth, working on a "book"
occasionally: singer, songwriter, actress, oenophile, critic, diva
day job: tech, product management, surveillance capitalism (jk lolsob)
working on: finding the perfect & most meaningful day job (call me), a digital humanities masters degree & related research, a collection of pomes, a garden, my abs, my voice, trying to become trilingual, making space for others, healing, secrets, decolonizing, dis/comfort
formerly: dancer, bostonian, marathon runner, opera singer, video game designer, hot guestlist girl at the clerb, shop manager, art model, bicoastal, dating app user, music blogger, greedily ambitious, underfed in many ways, punk, rave, "conservative," teenage riot grrrl zine maker
never: straight, acquiescent to authority (ask my parents [sorry mom]), staid, radical, sure, not going to take it personally, unscented, not thinking, working alone even when working alone, gonna give you up or give up on the dream my friends
Outputs
- main street rag, winter 2021 | poems: "n+1"; "letter from the anthropocene"
- dh7000, fall 2020 | text analysis & blog | "a terrifying tale of two vampire text analyses"
- dh70000, fall 2020 | map & blog | "mapping the real housewives of new york vacation locations"
- the moth, summer 2020 | poem: "aubade"
- medium, 2018 | transitioning from marketing management to product management
- just bloggin, 2016 | a reader's guide to luke cage on netflix
- east coast literary review 2015 | poem: "love song"
- dubspot, summer 2013 | article: "delia derbyshire, 1960s electronic music pioneer and sound designer"
- polygon, 2012 | video interview abt games data, gangnam style & dancing, "making gangnam"
- scythe literary journal #4, winter 2010 | poems: "dinner with the vespers," "transubstantiation"
- gargoyle #54, 2009 | short story: "sun and sea and silver"
rachel dixon finds it difficult to be every woman but is somehow a writer, poet, digital humanist (ama), product manager (don't?), independent advisor, data analyst, art game maker, film enabler, folklorist, singing musician, friend, and probably more things not considered for most personal brand lps