Rachel Loden's second full-length book Dick of the Dead was published by Ahsahta Press in May 2009. She is also the author of Hotel Imperium, which won the Contemporary Poetry Series Competition of the University of Georgia Press. It was named one of the ten best poetry books of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle, which called it "quirky and beguiling," and was shortlisted for the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award. Loden has also published four chapbooks, including The Last Campaign (which won the Hudson Valley Writers' Center chapbook competition) and The Richard Nixon Snow Globe (Wild Honey Press). Her work has appeared in New American Writing, The Paris Review, two editions of the Best American Poetry series, Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry, and many other magazines and anthologies. Loden's microplay, "A Quaker Meeting in Yorba Linda," was performed in New York as part of Plays on Words: A Poets Theater Festival curated by Tony Torn, Lee Ann Brown and Corina Copp. Awards include a Pushcart Prize, a Fellowship in Poetry from the California Arts Council, and a grant from the Fund for Poetry.