RK Fauth is a poet who writes about gender, language, and the un/natural world. Her debut collection, A Dream in Which I Am Playing with Bees (Texas Tech University Press, 2024), won the Walt MacDonald First Book Prize in Poetry. Bees was also a finalist for the Audre Lorde Award in Poetry (The Publishing Triangle) the Julie Suk Award (Jacar Press), and was long-listed for the Laurel Prize in ecopoetry (The UK Poetry School).

Fauth’s poems are published in POETRY Magazine, Poem-a-Day, AGNI, West Trade Review, Plumwood Mountain Journal, Notch Magazine, and elsewhere. Her work appears in several queer and environmental poetry anthologies. Most recently, her poetry was included in The Gift of Animals, edited by Alison Deming and foreword by Robin Wall Kimmerer.

Fauth has received fellowships & awards from the Academy of American Poets, the Fulbright Program, Art Omi, and the Oak Spring Garden Foundation. She earned a Master’s degree in English from Georgetown University as a Poetry Fellow at the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice.

RK Fauth works full-time as a writer for a mental health company, and lives in New York City.