RK Fauth is a poet and visual artist whose work explores ecological grief, awe, and the un/natural world. Her debut poetry collection, A Dream in Which I Am Playing with Bees (2024), explores the relationship between species extinction and language. Playing with Bees won the Walt McDonald First Book Prize in Poetry from Texas Tech University Press and was a finalist for the Audre Lorde Award in Poetry from The Publishing Triangle.

RK’s poems are published by POETRY Magazine, AGNI, The Columbia Review, Arc Poetry, Plumwood Mountain Journal, Notch Magazine, The Shore, and The Academy of American Poets. Her work is anthologized in queer and environmental poetry collections. She reads for Ploughshares.

Her recent poetry takes the form of a sculptural installation series called I Wanted to Tell You. These large-scale poetic fragments are situated in landscapes where the words to describe the surrounding nature have been removed from the Oxford English dictionary. The first in the series, pasture (n.), is installed in the pastures of Djerassi Foundation in Woodside, CA.

RK has been supported by scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Fulbright Program, and the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice. She has held residencies at Art Omi (NY), Djerassi (CA), and The Folger Shakespeare Library (DC). She is a recurring botanical research artist at The Oak Spring Garden Foundation in Upperville, Virginia.

RK Fauth grew up in New York. She works at Johns Hopkins University as the Assistant Director of National Scholarships and Fellowships, where she mentors first generation and low income students applying for prestigious awards. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.