#  Graduate Profile: Raisa Tolchinsky, MRPL '24 

 





May 13, 2024

 

 

     ![Raisa Tolchinsky, MRPL '24](/sites/g/files/omnuum5526/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hds2/files/raisatolchinsky-900x600.jpg?itok=CFTbbWfq) 

Raisa Tolchinsky, MRPL '24 / Courtesy Photo

 



 

## How I've Changed 

As a writer and as a person, I am more willing to take risks, with more capacity to trust the messiness and the mistakes.

## Memorable Moment 

Being part of the pilgrimage to Great Salt Lake with Terry Tempest Williams and Stephanie Paulsell-- sitting around a campfire while watching bison stampede across the hills.

## Message of Thanks 

I'm so grateful to Stephanie Paulsell, Terry Tempest Williams, Kerry Maloney, Jorie Graham, and Annette Yoshiko-Reed, whose support of my work has been world-changing. And although my degree was only one year, the friends I've made here, I've made for life.

## What I Hope to Be Remembered By 

I hope to have left HDS with a little more poetry than when I began-- and I'm honored to be one of the many poets who have traveled through this space.