Rage Hezekiah serves as the inaugural Tapestry Chair and Associate Director of Academic Services. A poet and educator who earned her MFA from Emerson College, she joined the Bennington community in 2018, supporting first-year and international students as a first-year counselor and Associate Director of International Student Services. Rage was a member of the President's Working Group on Anti-Racism and has worked in higher education for a decade, initially as a faculty member at Emerson College. In the classroom, diversity, equity, and inclusion were central to her pedagogy, earning her an Inclusive Excellence Faculty Fellowship. Following her time at Emerson, Rage supported students with academic accommodations as an Accessibility Specialist at Brandeis University.

Also a professional writer, Rage is a Cave Canem, Ragdale, and MacDowell Fellow. Her recent collection, "Yearn," was a 2021 Diode Editions Book Contest winner, and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, The Vermont Book Award, and the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry. She is the author of "Unslakable" (Paper Nautilus Press, 2019) and "Stray Harbor" (Finishing Line Press, 2019). Rage's poems have appeared in the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, The Cincinnati Review, The Colorado Review, and several other journals and anthologies. She also serves as the Interviews Editor at The Common. You can find more of Rage's work and learn about her professional experience at ragehezekiah.com.