Rachel Zolf’s Human Resources (Coach House, 2007) won the 2008 Trillium Book Award for Poetry and was shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award. Her other collections include Shoot and Weep (Nomados, 2008), from Human Resources (Belladonna, 2005), Masque (Mercury, 2004) – finalist for the 2005 Trillium Book Award for Poetry – and Her absence, this wanderer (BuschekBooks, 1999), finalist in the CBC Literary Competition. The Neighbour Procedure appears from Coach House in 2010.

Zolf's poetry and essays have been published in journals such as Xcp: Cross-Cultural Poetics, West Coast Line, Capilano Review and Open Letter and in the anthologies Prismatic Publics: Innovative Canadian Women’s Poetry and Poetics (Coach House, 2009) and Shift & Switch: New Canadian Poetry. She was the founding poetry editor of The Walrus magazine, has edited several books of poetry and sat on several grant and contest juries. She has been awarded a Chalmers Arts Fellowship and received poetry, non-fiction, and video grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the Toronto Arts Council and the Bravo arts network. Her work has been translated into French and Spanish and into video art form.

A former documentary writer-producer and communications consultant, Zolf has also made experimental poetry videos and collaborated with other artists on various performance and publishing initiatives. Her literary papers are housed at York University archives, and she is a member of the League of Canadian Poets and the Writers Union of Canada. Born in Toronto, Zolf is presently living in New York City.