Rivka Clifton

Rivka Clifton is a transfemme writer based in Seattle, according to publisher and magazine pages. Their debut full-length poetry collection is Muzzle, published by JackLeg Press in 2025. They have also published chapbooks with Osmanthus Press and Split/Lip Press. Clifton's poems have appeared in journals including Pleiades, Guernica, Black Warrior Review, and Colorado Review. A chapbook, A Feast of Small Proportions, won The Slice Poetry Chapbook Contest and is slated for 2026 from Fork Apple Press. Clifton was a founding co-editor of Bear Review.