Rashel Veprinski was born in the town of Ivankov, near Kyiv, Ukraine, in 1893. In 1907, after the death of her father, she and her mother and siblings moved to New York City, where she began working in a sweatshop. She attended night school and read work by Yiddish-American poets. In 1918 she published her first poem, in the Yiddish journal Di naye velt (The New World), and then published poetry, fiction, and articles in numerous Yiddish magazines and journals. She published numerous books and also compiled Mani Leyb’s literary oeuvre after his death. She died in New York in 1981.
