Adrienne Raphel Adrienne Raphel is the author of What Was It For (forthcoming in 2017), winner of the Rescue Press Black Box Poetry Prize, and the chapbook But What Will We Do, winner of the Seattle Review Chapbook Contest. She writes for the New Yorker online, and her work has also appeared in the Paris Review Daily and Lana Turner Journal, among other publications. Raphel earned an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and she is currently a PhD candidate in English at Harvard University.